oldish

Example Sentences

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The all-purpose reply is designed to disarm oldish people who dispense condescension dressed up as wisdom.

From Washington Post • Nov. 5, 2019

And suddenly this figure of the hyphen takes on palpable life, for it is this little temporal bridge which the poet, oldish but renewed by his late marriage, now fiercely cherishes:

From The New Yorker • Jan. 4, 2016

In While We’re Young, oldish Josh says that young Jamie has a vast collection of old movie favorites, with Citizen Kane next to The Goonies, Steven Spielberg’s 1985 kids-in-a-cave caper.

From Time • Apr. 11, 2015

Yeah, my friend, you need to put yourself in the care of an oldish baldish barber.

From Slate • Sep. 24, 2014

“Two other men, sir. One oldish, and one tall and sort of scholarly.”

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman