(Used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned.
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Examples for "mossy"
Examples for "mossy"
1Damp and mildew had left large mossy areas on their veranda floor.
2The ashes of the dead had been strewn upon the mossy plains.
3A girl sat on the mossy river-bank in the dappled, golden sunlight.
4The trunks of the old trees were big and rough and mossy.
5From the heart of the agate the mossy landscape comes dreaming out.
1The London club's approach has been too stodgy to date, after all.
2However, he moves from the flee-flowing Warriors to the stodgy, forward-based Sharks.
3They bore no resemblance to the stodgy side seen at the Velodrome.
4The stodgy old man answer is no, it is not a need.
5He might call me various unflattering things, but not stodgy-notwith truth.
1But his scheme received no encouragement from the old-fogyish authorities.
2Why, Jenny, I hae heard that Robert Leslie once spoke o' the house o' John Callendar & Co. as 'old fogyish!'
1But what do those stick-in-the-mud, living people know about modern convenience, huh?
2Oh, you are getting to be an old man, you stick-in-the-mud.
3Even stick-in-the-mud lawyer Portia Bellefleur was peeking around her conservative beau to study Mickey.
4I was once a stick-in-the-mud Halloween refusenik.
5Naomi and Ginny exchanged the sort of glances which culinary sophisticates exchange in the presence of stick-in-the-mud louts.
1It breeds about Derali, Bairamghati, and Gangaotri, in the large moss-grown deodars.
2The stream was perhaps eight feet across, spanned by a moss-grown footbridge.
3I have a nice garden but it is untidy, moss-grown- adilettantegarden.
4Soon he was gliding along the sides of the moss-grown walls.
5On the two moss-grown pillars, reposed the well known crest of his family.
6Blind Sorrel was lying by the moss-grown horse-trough, at the gate.
7And then, issuing from the chase, he came upon a broad, moss-grown terrace.
8He no longer wore the gray, moss-grown stone attire, but white, glittering silver.
9Fastening his horse to the moss-grown paling, Algernon proceeded to knock at the door.
10Holland is so essentially a tidy country that nothing old or moss-grown is tolerated.
11When Christian left the drawing-room he walked quickly down the moss-grown path to the moat.
12He leaned up against the moss-grown wall, looking back into the darkness of the lane.
13Vigfusson sat down on the moss-grown rock and pondered.
14Or bow my head on moss-grown rocks to sleep.
15Go to a lone house at Lambeth, with moss-grown steps down to the water's edge.
16The moon was casting a ghastly light over the great moss-grown stone and the deserted wolds.