fusty vs smelly

fusty

adj
  • Stale-smelling or stuffy. 

  • Moldy or musty. 

  • Tasting of the cask. 

  • Old-fashioned, refusing to change or update. 

smelly

adj
  • Having a bad smell. 

  • Having signs that suggest a design problem; having a code smell. 

  • Having a quality that arouses suspicion. 

noun
  • a Short Magazine Lee Enfield rifle or one of its derivatives. 

How often have the words fusty and smelly occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )