fogy

Example Sentences

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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

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.