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
Fired summarily by Medvedev, Luzhkov embodied both those hallmarks of the Putin era: old-fashionedness and corruption.
From Reuters ● Oct. 14, 2010
“We don’t carry on that way,” he explained, smiling at his own old-fashionedness.
From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2010
Its fatal old-fashionedness hangs like a millstone about its neck.
From The Bibliotaph and Other People by Leon H. (Leon Henry) Vincent
