fogyish
Example Sentences
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Letter writer Roger Walton's admonition that one must "show some respect" by dressing up for the opera or the theater reflects a fogyish, aristocratic, East Coast preoccupation with what is "done" and "not done."
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2015
I won't have you call yourself old—or fogyish, either!
From Raspberry Jam by Wells, Carolyn
April 20.—The generation crowding on this fogyish one will sit in court of justice over the evil-doers, over the helpless, over the egotists who are to-day at work.
From Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count
Stupid, rusty, foggyish and fogyish regulations, so perfectly in harmony with the general ignorance of what ought to be the staff of an army!
From Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count
You should just see Brina tread our old fogyish social laws under her feet.
From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
