moldy

It’s a lot easier to sell the trustees on “I got us to the playoff” than “I dragged the moldy carcass of our program to a half-filled stadium for the Toothpaste Bowl.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

To be clear: These athletes aren’t chowing on the yucky old sports gels we all know and hate, the ones that taste like tangerines and moldy baseball gloves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

The bed was wonderfully comfortable, though the shower in the spacious bathroom had a faint moldy smell.

From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2026

Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff decried the inadequacy of medical care, low staffing and reports of moldy food and foul drinking water.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026

“Measuring spoons, castor oil—blech!—a large cooking pot with a tight-fitting lid, moldy apples, goose fat, rinds of cheese...”

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

The derring-do is so entertaining, the moldier gags and soppy ending are forgivable.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2013

The straw they had given him seemed even moldier than the pile on which Meggie had slept, but the boy looked as if he hadn’t closed his eyes since Flatnose had locked him in anyway.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

I’ve heard him say, to one of the hovering women who was making feeble attempts to corral some of the moldier clutter.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

In fact everything looked, as Erica expressed it, "moldier!"

From We Two, a novel by Edna Lyall

The scripts overhaul the moldiest genre tropes -- interstellar invasions, time travel loops, dimension-hopping inventions -- and infuse them with such warmth and silliness that they seem fresh again.

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2011

Otto himself, a pleasant youth in a scarlet & white Hungarian noble's costume, sat at the head of a table that contained members of the proudest, moldiest families in Europe.

From Time Magazine Archive

Puffing Bird Sir: Avant garde bopper Parker, as any but the moldiest fig knows, earned his frenetic niche in bopdom by his puffing on the alto sax.

From Time Magazine Archive

The simplest, tiredest, moldiest old racket that ever made a quick nickel.

From Letter of the Law by Alan Edward Nourse