fogey

Lewis paints Ray as an old fogey who simply doesn’t get it and has tried to impose old-school financial standards on new-school operations such as FTX.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2023

“I acknowledge the fact I was the old, craggy fogey and she was this beautiful creature,” he said.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2022

But I am also mindful of the possibility that I am a blinkered fogey missing the Next Big Thing.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2022

But she can’t figure out how to voice these reservations without sounding like a fogey.

From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2021

Mr. Keesing, the old fogey who teaches math, was mad at me for the longest time because I talked so much.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

The Recording Academy can’t get enough of young fogeys like Laufey, whose pop-jazz balladry might evoke voters’ memories of Norah Jones.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025

The “serious” music that confounded the fogeys nearly a century ago is played in every symphony hall around the world.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2019

They may associate traditional three-camera series like BBT with shows like Saved By the Bell or Hannah Montana, which seem formally stiff and aimed at either little kids or old fogeys.

From The Verge ● Aug. 30, 2018

When Schur attacked all of these dyspeptic, mother’s-basement-invoking fogeys, he believed he was punching up at the gatekeepers of the game.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2016

But Hilversea is a dullish place for one boy to get through his holidays in, shut up with two old fogeys, so he’s generally over at Haldane’s, or Haldane’s boy is over here.

From The Red Derelict by Bertram Mitford