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
He can be didactic, a crotchety young fogy.
From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2012
Yes, I am coming to the school; though I guess I've got an old fogy of a teacher.
From What She Could by Susan Warner
“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
In recent years, people worried about inflation were regarded as falling somewhere between fogies and cranks.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 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
In the Weimar days the general objection of the "old fogies" was that his music lacked melody.
From Memories of a Musical Life by William Mason
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