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hoary

adjective as in ancient

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adjective as in gray or white

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One hates to indulge hoary ideas about happiness being bad for songwriters.

He is a hoary phoenix rising from the ashes of his own stench so often he resembles the s**t demon in “Dogma.”

Some take comfort in hoary comic patterns, souped-up eccentricity and reassuring pieties.

Republican operatives learned from Bush that falsified evidence is an excellent way to manufacture public consent, to use a hoary academic term.

At its foundation, the movie is a hoary cliché with quirk spackled on it.

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