old-fashionedness
- a word derived from old-fashioned.
Example Sentences
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It was partly the old-fashionedness of it, the simplicity of trudging through the cold with my family to be part of a massive crowd.
From The Guardian • Jan. 29, 2017
It said, “Look at me asserting the value of painting in an era characterized by the abstract perfection of new media”; it said, “Look at how cutting edge my old-fashionedness is.”
From The New Yorker • May 30, 2016
What distinguished “Season” from such antecedents — and may account for its copping both the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for best play — was its formal old-fashionedness.
From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2011
Fired summarily by Medvedev, Luzhkov embodied both those hallmarks of the Putin era: old-fashionedness and corruption.
From Reuters • Oct. 14, 2010
Poor Starkey, when young, had that peculiar stamp of old-fashionedness in his face which makes it impossible for a beholder to predicate any particular age in the object.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various
