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
But Laurent Pelly’s searing staging, produced with the Vienna State Opera, crisply played and superbly cast, showed that a fogy can burn with as much — if not more — fire as something fresh.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2018
I comfortably describe myself as an old fogy.
From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2018
He can be didactic, a crotchety young fogy.
From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2012
Governor Wise, again, is a reformer in his way—Senator Hunter is set down as an "old fogy" in politics.
From Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 by Bartlett, D. W.
“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
They moved from Midtown after a realization in their old building’s elevator that all of their neighbors were “a bunch of old fogies like us,” as Silverstein put it.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2021
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
What a party of old fogies he has assembled; no one worth looking at!
From Under the Mendips A Tale by Marshall, Emma
