old fogy
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I comfortably describe myself as an old fogy.
From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2018
Does all of this make me an old fogy?
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2010
He has a pedagogic urge to prove that "being in the field of classics doesn't make one an old fogy."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Pierre Bonnard's latter-day success is galling to some Parisian moderns, who think he is an old fogy.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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 Hans Mattson