old-fogyish
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Gone from the front page are the old-fogyish editorial cartoons, as well as the proclamation that this is the "American Paper for Americans."
From Time Magazine Archive
Wasp-waisted Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek agrees with President Roosevelt that the present is no time for old-fogyish, orthodox finance.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ethel did not care a pin for them or their opinion; if they chose to be old-fogyish and disagreeable, they were quite welcome to indulge their fancy.
From Princess by McClelland, M. G. (Mary Greenway)
To commit blindly to memory precious forms of truth, which the wise and good have hived for the use of the race, is poohed at as old-fogyish.
From In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education by Hart, John S. (John Seely)
Doubtless he is old-fogyish but from his long association with our family he knows the Forsyth traditions and what the head of the House of Forsyth should be.
From Red-Robin by Richards, Harriet Roosevelt
