fogeyism
- a word derived from fogey.
Example Sentences
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This isn’t mere fogeyism from a sportswriter who grew up rooting for Hakeem Olajuwon when he went by Akeem.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2020
There aren't any good old fogeys left, only some fogeys without the merits of fogeyism.
From Years of Plenty by Brown, Ivor
First and last there was a quantity of grinding detail which, like the embittered old fogeyism of the Blaines College trustees, had not appeared on his rosy prospect in the Maytime preceding.
From Queed by Crosby, Raymond Moreau
Harry declared himself, "in my bones" as he expressed it, against boarding schools for girls, "But that's my old fogeyism," said he.
From This Freedom by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)
He was ripe, without having declined a digit towards fogeyism.
From A Laodicean : a Story of To-day by Hardy, Thomas
