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
I comfortably describe myself as an old fogy.
From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2018
Bellow was aware that his repeated insistence on our “state of radical distraction” made him sound, at times, like a fogy, a turkey gobbling at the inanities of the young.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2015
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
He never was an old fogy, but is brimful of originality and reform.
From Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 by D. W. Bartlett
“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
Most of them are blue-blooded old fogies, with their souls full of fine ideals, but with no leader.
From The Long Lane's Turning by Hallie Erminie Rives
