frowstyadjective
uk/ˈfraʊ.sti/us/ˈfraʊ.sti/UK informal disapproving(of a room) having an unpleasant smell because of having no fresh air
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Smells & smelling
- acrid
- aroma
- beery
- bouquet
- cheesy
- foetid
- fragrance
- odour
- pungent
- putrid
- scratch-and-sniff
- smell somewhere out
- smell sth/sb out
- smelly
- sniff sth/sb out
- sour
- stagnant
- stinky
- whiffy
- woody
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Examples from literature
- For surely she was in exile there, an exile from all the fun and frolic and, fury of life, marooned in weary isolation, on a high stool, in a frowsty table d'hôte, in the living heart of London.