Not Fresh As Bread Crossword Clue

We think the answer is "STALE" which means:

adjective
• • Lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age
adjective satellite
• • Lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
verb
• • Urinate, of cattle and horses
noun
• • Something stale; a loaf of bread or the like that is no longer fresh.
• • A long, thin handle (of rakes, axes, etc.)
• • The posts and rungs composing a ladder.
• • The stem of a plant.
• • The shaft of an arrow, spear, etc.
• • A fixed position, particularly a soldier's in a battle-line.
• • A stalemate; a stalemated game.
• • An ambush.
• • A band of armed men or hunters.
• • The main force of an army.
• • (livestock) urine, especially used of horses and cattle.
• • A live bird to lure birds of prey or others of its kind into a trap.
• • Any lure, particularly in reference to people used as live bait.
• • An accomplice of a thief or criminal acting as bait.
• • A partner whose beloved abandons or torments him in favor of another.
• • A patsy, a pawn, someone used under some false pretext to forward another's (usu. sinister) designs; a stalking horse.
• • A prostitute of the lowest sort; any wanton woman.
• • Any decoy, either stuffed or manufactured.

An example sentence would be:

• • "The bread was stale and dry."
• • "The air in the room smelled stale."

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