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dusty, dust-covered

adj. covered with a layer of dust; "a dusty pile of books"

cold, stale, dusty, moth-eaten

adj. lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; "moth-eaten theories about race"; "stale news"

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Augean

adj. extremely filthy from long neglect

bedraggled, draggled

adj. limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; "the beggar's bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts"

befouled, fouled

adj. made dirty or foul; "a building befouled with soot"; "breathing air fouled and darkened with factory soot"

grubby

adj. infested with grubs

smudgy

adj. smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination; "oil-smeared work clothes"; "hostile faces smirched by the grime and rust"- Henry Roth; "ink-smudged fingers"

bespattered, spattered, splashed

adj. spattered or spotted with dirt or filth; often used in combination; "dingy bespattered walls"; "a grease-spattered floor"; "a besplashed coach"; "mud-splashed trouser legs"

buggy

adj. infested with bugs

feculent

adj. foul with waste matter

filthy, foul, nasty

adj. disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room"

flyblown, squalid, sordid

adj. foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns"

lousy

adj. infested with lice; "burned their lousy clothes"

maggoty

adj. spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots"

mucky, muddy

adj. dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable"

scummy

adj. covered with scum; "the scummy surface of the polluted pond"

snotty, snot-nosed

adj. dirty with nasal discharge; "a snotty nose"; "a house full of snot-nosed kids"

travel-soiled, travel-stained

adj. soiled from travel; "travel-soiled clothes"

unwashed

adj. not cleaned with or as if with soap and water; "a sink full of unwashed dishes"

adapted

adj. changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose; "seeds precisely adapted to the area"; "instructions altered to suit the children's different ages"

bromidic, corny, platitudinal, platitudinous

adj. dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality; "bromidic sermons"

banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn

adj. repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"

cliched, ready-made

adj. repeated regularly without thought or originality; "ready-made phrases"

imitative, copied

adj. marked by or given to imitation; "acting is an imitative art"; "man is an imitative being"

derivative, derived

adj. resulting from or employing derivation; "a derivative process"; "a highly derivative prose style"

duplicate

adj. identically copied from an original; "a duplicate key"

slavish

adj. blindly imitative; "a slavish copy of the original"

traced

adj. derived by copying something else; especially by following lines seen through a transparent sheet

original

adj. being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of; "a truly original approach"; "with original music"; "an original mind"

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