When you call something dusty, it's either literally covered in dust or so old and unoriginal that it might as well be.
Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust;
Adjective S.
covered with a layer of dusty; "a dusty pile of books"
superl.
Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with
dust; as, a dusty table; also, reducing to dust.
superl.
Like dust; of the color of dust; as a dusty white.
Dusty
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.2.
Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust;
Usage Examples
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.
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Other Usage ExamplesOur imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.
Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules.