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But there's nothing old-fogeyish about JR's ex-wife, Sue Ellen, played by Linda Gray, who has moved into the present day apparently untouched by the ravages of time.

From The Guardian • Jun. 14, 2012

The relatives had astonishingly settled down, with the unmoved passage of time, and more modern emancipation had so far left latchkeys and bachelor apartments behind it that they began to seem almost old-fogeyish.

From The Head of the House of Coombe by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

After all, it is a silly, old-fogeyish habit, this of diary-keeping; and I think the renowned Pepys himself was only a bachelor spoiled.

From Henry Dunbar A Novel by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)