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
But Laurent Pelly’s searing staging, produced with the Vienna State Opera, crisply played and superbly cast, showed that a fogy can burn with as much — if not more — fire as something fresh.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2018
I comfortably describe myself as an old fogy.
From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2018
He not only regarded him as an old fogy, a vain old fogy, but as a dead weight upon the Star.
From Hempfield A Novel by David Grayson
“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
They moved from Midtown after a realization in their old building’s elevator that all of their neighbors were “a bunch of old fogies like us,” as Silverstein put it.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2021
Time and sorrow may make fogies of us all.
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2021
Oh, I know my plan will bring up all the fogies in full blast, And Coercion and Protection I see looking on aghast.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98 February 15, 1890 by Various
