ghetto vs musty

ghetto

adj
  • Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude. 

  • Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States. 

  • Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States. 

  • Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general. 

verb
  • To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto. 

noun
  • An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.) 

  • An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated. 

  • An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race. 

  • An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest. 

musty

adj
  • Of a person: boring and unadventurous; also, old-fashioned, stuck in the past. 

  • Affected by dampness or mould; damp, mildewed, mouldy. 

  • Characteristic of or relating to mould or mouldiness. 

  • Of attitudes, ideas, writing, or other abstract things: no longer fresh or interesting; outdated, stale. 

  • Having an odour or taste of mould; also (generally), having a stale or unfresh odour or taste. 

  • Bad-tempered, grumpy, irritable. 

  • Of a male animal such as a camel or an elephant: in musth. 

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