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old man

noun as in father or husband

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"I'm an old man, I'm a broken man," he says.

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Now he’s just an angry old man who calls reporters “piggy.”

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The painting showed an old man in cracked spectacles standing beside a lame horse, in the midst of a homestead that had burned to the ground, so that only the smoking ruins remained.

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“My sight has failed me,” the old man says, turning toward the presence he can sense but not see.

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He does seem faintly impaired, or at least like a mean old man.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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