old fashioned
noun
a cocktail made with whiskey, bitters, water, and sugar, and garnished with citrus-fruit slices and a cherry.
old-fashionedness
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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
Much more striking about Putin's Russia are two other aspects: its corruption and its old-fashionedness.
From Reuters ● Oct. 14, 2010
This, I must confess, surprised me much, and I pondered the saying long, but could come at no satisfactory conclusion as to that wherein my old-fashionedness lay.
From The Coral Island A Tale of the Pacific Ocean by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
