How To Use Fogey In A Sentence
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Pathetic is the word that aptly described this fogey.
McCain says he is now 'a partisan'
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Am I just an old fogey, or is it really true that popular music of this era is far better than anything since?
Remembering Dave Dee
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Standing in queues is not easy for us old fogeys with worn-out joints.
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Why should it be when all you ever heard was some old fogey in a dusty gown declaiming Cicero or Beowulf?
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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It's telling that in our culture someone who becomes associated with beliefs such as these is lampooned as a pathetic fogey who apparently thinks those old books are important or something.
Principles of Literary Criticism
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It's getting increasingly odd to read books with David Tennant's manic cheeky chappie at the same time as watching Matt Smith's alien young fogey (must try not doing two books and new episode in the same weekend too often).
Gibbon Chapter XXIV
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The day will come when I too must be pushed from my stool by the workings of younger genius, and shall sink, as poor Mr. Brown is now sinking, into the foggy depths of fogeydom.
The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm
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Old fogey: Carline, ah, how to begin to read aloud again case old?
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She was showing old fogey potential at a frighteningly young age.
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The long and the short of it is that I am transformed from my old estate of globe-trotter and observer of events and nature into the land of suburban old fogeydom, and the point to touch, so far as I am personally engaged, is whether really and truly I do very much and deeply regret the change.
Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile
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I'm very pleased to have a new word in my vocabulary to use in the defence of young people and the attacking of the kind of fogey-ness that attends many, many discussions of young people, young people's behaviour, young people's books etc etc et bloody cetera.
Ephebiphobia
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None of the hundreds of tickets handed in bore the magic number 2222, which would have released me from my ignoble custody, and, in time, I gave up expecting it, and settled down to the old-fogeydom of my position, and exacted all the homage due to the "father of the shop" from my restless companions.
The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch
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This probably means I am officially an old fogey.
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Often dismissed as wrinklies and fogeys, dodderers and ditherers, it turns out that Saga's target audience are, in fact, among the biggest consumers in the country.
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In which case I’m right there with my fellow disgruntled thirty-something in the “WTF do these kids think they’re doing?!?!?!?” school of old-fogeydom.
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This Charles question is not really about him being a fogey with hopelessly reactionary ideas.
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It's not a perception he wants to encourage at the age of 38, which is verging on old fogeydom in the rarefied world of cutting-edge math.
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Workers will resent handing over their entire paycheques to fund the gerontocracy and then have to suffer through fogeyish easy listening classics on every radio station.
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Why else would I be cheering on self-promoting snakes like Morgan and reactionary fogeys like Moore?
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This argument isn't coming from a old-fogey teetotaler.
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The friends who had developed about his path in such flattering numbers when he came home from India, and retired, with a newly-acquired fortune and a vague halo of military distinction about his person, into the ranks of the half-paid, were beginning to find him rather old and, frankly, a considerable bore; but the timely benevolence which he had extended to his nephew was, it appeared, to have its reward in this world in the shape of a kind of reflected rejuvenescence, a temporary respite from the limbo of (how he hated the word!) fogeydom.
A Comedy of Masks A Novel
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This argument isn't coming from a old-fogey teetotaler.
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How did my great anti-establishment hero come to morph so easily into the "SirIan" old fogey of present-day Test match commentary?
TV review - Botham: The Legend of '81 and Regional TV: Life Through a Local Lens
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Why should it be when all you ever heard was some old fogey in a dusty gown declaiming Cicero or Beowulf ?
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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Still let me sing thy praises, gracious Love, though I am entering on the days of fogeydom, and my minstrelsy is something rusty.
Cruel Barbara Allen From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)
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Often dismissed as wrinklies and fogeys, dodderers and ditherers, it turns out that the company's target audience are, in fact, among the biggest consumers in the country.
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_tapis_ in the circumlocution departments with the usual quantity of red tape and dillydallying of effete fogeydom and dunderheads generally.
Ulysses
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None other than older fogey rocket man Werner von Braun himself.
NASA 2.0? - NASA Watch
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Isn't that what an old fogey's supposed to say?
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Why should it be when all you ever heard was some old fogey in a dusty gown declaiming Cicero or Beowulf?
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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His donnish concerns and highly specific milieu make him less ‘contemporary and accessible’ than his Anglophilic, Masterpiece Theaterish, young fogey fans might think.
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True, I did watch Countryfile at the weekend fly fishing on the river Usk, hell yeah! but I fail to see anything fogey about refusing to join a virtual reality cult.
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Rational Review
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Old fogey: Carline, ah, how to begin to aloud again case old?
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Oh, well, I watch Teletubbies to relax, so no fogeydom in my future.
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Surely the hipster yuppies and rich old fogeys will appreciate the urban artistic expression dignifying the view from the windows of their posh homes.
You Know Where to Find Me
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Starting any sentence with the phrase "kids these days" automatically labels you as "old fogey".
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TAPIS in the circumlocution departments with the usual quantity of red tape and dillydallying of effete fogeydom and dunderheads generally.
Ulysses
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I'm such an old fogey that I can't remember ever having to crack out the crayons, Play Doh, and paints for my homework in high school.
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Old fogey that I am, after that I stayed in the slow lane, poking along at 80 or 90.
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One doesn't have to be a woolly-minded techno-utopian to criticize this as pandering to reactionary fogeys.
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He placed his faith in a stiff upper lip, and the grassroots who loved him were old fogeys.
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If you don't know what a Twitter Jockey is, don't feel like too much of a fogey, it seems like MTV is still figuring out what that means too.
Starre Vartan: Gabi, MTV's First Twitter Jockey is a Curvy Goddess Elected by Generation Y
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But for a new wave of teenage Aberdeen supporters, the old fogey between the sticks must be just another member of a depressingly unsuccessful side.
