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stale

 
/steɪl/ adj [-er/-est only]

Definition

not fresh or new: stale bread Stale air smells very bad. I used to like that sitcom, but it’s getting kind of stale.
(Definition of stale adj from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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