hoary

But sometime over this last winter — that numbing, hoary stretch between mid-February and March — I decided this might be the year to reclaim a bit of seasonal delight.

One hates to indulge hoary ideas about happiness being bad for songwriters.

He is a hoary phoenix rising from the ashes of his own stench so often he resembles the s**t demon in “Dogma.”

Some take comfort in hoary comic patterns, souped-up eccentricity and reassuring pieties.

Republican operatives learned from Bush that falsified evidence is an excellent way to manufacture public consent, to use a hoary academic term.