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
Berman is a young fogy, described as “a 37-year-old trapped in a 67-year-old’s body.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2014
The girl's lip curled like an opening rose-bud; she gave a nipping laugh, and I just heard "old fogy" break through it so saucily that my blood riled.
From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
“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
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
The young and restless pundit class has an entirely different code of workplace ethics than many of the old fogies running the shows.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2020
His friends, too, such dear old fogies, like your esteemed aunt, not like your friends—you know how fond he is of them.
From Parlous Times A Novel of Modern Diplomacy by David Dwight Wells
