fogey
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Lewis paints Ray as an old fogey who simply doesn’t get it and has tried to impose old-school financial standards on new-school operations such as FTX.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2023
But sometimes, alas, a reluctant or confused old fogey must be persuaded.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2023
“I acknowledge the fact I was the old, craggy fogey and she was this beautiful creature,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2022
But she can’t figure out how to voice these reservations without sounding like a fogey.
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2021
Mr. Keesing, the old fogey who teaches math, was mad at me for the longest time because I talked so much.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
The Recording Academy can’t get enough of young fogeys like Laufey, whose pop-jazz balladry might evoke voters’ memories of Norah Jones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025
The “serious” music that confounded the fogeys nearly a century ago is played in every symphony hall around the world.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2019
Author: Ian Tuttle is one of the young fogeys most recently added to the NR pipeline.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 2017
When Schur attacked all of these dyspeptic, mother’s-basement-invoking fogeys, he believed he was punching up at the gatekeepers of the game.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2016
What did old Randolph mean always hanging about that old woman, and all the rest of the old fogeys?
From Sir Tom by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
