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old-fogyish
adjective as in fogyish
Strongest matches
Weak match
Example Sentences
The business of the company is managed on the outfit system, the most old-fogyish, yet by its officers declared to be the most perfect, plan in use by any corporation.
Behold me � the prize prude of the radical movement; a man who can say that he has never told a smutty story in his life and who was once described by his former marital partner,* through the papers of the civilized world, as 'an essential monogamist' � a very old-fogyish thing to be.
Gone from the front page are the old-fogyish editorial cartoons, as well as the proclamation that this is the "American Paper for Americans."
Wasp-waisted Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek agrees with President Roosevelt that the present is no time for old-fogyish, orthodox finance.
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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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