oldish
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of oldish
Example Sentences
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The all-purpose reply is designed to disarm oldish people who dispense condescension dressed up as wisdom.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 5, 2019
And suddenly this figure of the hyphen takes on palpable life, for it is this little temporal bridge which the poet, oldish but renewed by his late marriage, now fiercely cherishes:
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 4, 2016
In While We’re Young, oldish Josh says that young Jamie has a vast collection of old movie favorites, with Citizen Kane next to The Goonies, Steven Spielberg’s 1985 kids-in-a-cave caper.
From Time ● Apr. 11, 2015
Yeah, my friend, you need to put yourself in the care of an oldish baldish barber.
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2014
She turned to see that he and Sydney had stopped at an oldish Volvo station wagon that looked more mom than Bond.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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