fogy
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Consequently, throughout the 1970s and ’80s Wilson was viewed as a Tory, a young fogy.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2022
Her first special was a portrait of a young fogy, but this new one zeros in on her self-protective cynicism and exaggerates it until it’s an absurd cartoon.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2022
I comfortably describe myself as an old fogy.
From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2018
Bellow was aware that his repeated insistence on our “state of radical distraction” made him sound, at times, like a fogy, a turkey gobbling at the inanities of the young.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2015
It is therefore not on account of superior merits, but on account of old fogy notions and prejudices that the bureaucracy, military and civil, consider themselves to be of such immeasurable importance.
From Reminiscences The Story of an Emigrant by Hans Mattson
“What it says for old fogies like me, is that the young are hungry for the word of God,” said Oldham, who is in his 40s.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2024
“It gives me an opportunity to go down the Soul Train Line and show these young people these old fogies can dance, too.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 4, 2022
Time and sorrow may make fogies of us all.
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2021
But in our multiple-exclamation-pointed, totally amazing, but like oh-em-gee, the worst society, this kind of over-the-top rhetoric is what passes for what we old fogies used to call “contrast” in elections.
From Fox News ● Aug. 28, 2020
His friends, too, such dear old fogies, like your esteemed aunt, not like your friends—you know how fond he is of them.
From Parlous Times A Novel of Modern Diplomacy by David Dwight Wells
