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
Or, more to the point, it might remind oldish viewers of a certain kind of observant, clever but unambitious independent film that came to prominence in the era it depicts.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2017
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
“He’s in a hurry. We’d—” then I saw another man, an oldish man running heavily, clutching a stick, and a boy naked from the waist up, clutching his pants as he ran.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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