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"stale smell" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a musty, old, or unpleasant odor that has been lingering in a space. Example: The abandoned house was filled with a stale smell of decay and neglect.
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"There was a stale smell," Pichit said.
"There was a stale smell," Mr. Pichit said.
Rome has started to give off a stale smell, as it slips back into old habits.
His pipes are on his desk and the stale smell of English tobacco comes from a cigarette packet.
"Justin poured beer all over so there'd be that stale smell," said Patricia Hickson, curator of contemporary art at the Wadsworth.
The place just had that vague stale smell of a bar old enough to have been around when people smoked in bars).
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It is a low-rise hotel across from a McDonald's, inside it is filled with a weary light and the stale smells of the Chinese restaurant attached.
As an alternative to big-box movie theaters plagued by cramped seats, stale smells and frighteningly artificial orange-yellow "butter," new and independent cinemas are now providing fantastic food and amenities, featuring everything from mixologist-crafted cocktails to reclining seats and chef-conceived concessions.
YOU may think that never in your life do want to hear another word about the egg cream, the iconic New York drink whose mere mention instantly evokes the sweet-stale smell of the corner candy store, the squeal of trolley wheels and the taunts of Dodgers fans at Ebbets Field.
William gave Lovey a perfunctory stale-smelling peck on the cheek.
I sat reluctantly at the breakfast table as she rubbed stale-smelling Johnson's Baby Oil onto my scalp and untangled my hair with a fine-tooth comb, which often snagged on a knot just as I tried to lean forward to swallow a spoonful of Cheerios.
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