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

It is therefore not on account of superior merits, but on account of old fogy notions and prejudices that the bureaucracy, military and civil, consider themselves to be of such immeasurable importance.

From Reminiscences The Story of an Emigrant by Mattson, Hans