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(Used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned.
mossy
stodgy
fogyish
stick-in-the-mud
covered
unfashionable
unstylish
1
It breeds about Derali, Bairamghati, and Gangaotri, in the large
moss
-
grown
deodars.
2
The stream was perhaps eight feet across, spanned by a
moss
-
grown
footbridge.
3
I have a nice garden but it is untidy,
moss
-
grown
-
adilettantegarden.
4
Soon he was gliding along the sides of the
moss
-
grown
walls.
5
On the two
moss
-
grown
pillars, reposed the well known crest of his family.
6
Blind Sorrel was lying by the
moss
-
grown
horse-trough, at the gate.
7
And then, issuing from the chase, he came upon a broad,
moss
-
grown
terrace.
8
He no longer wore the gray,
moss
-
grown
stone attire, but white, glittering silver.
9
Fastening his horse to the
moss
-
grown
paling, Algernon proceeded to knock at the door.
10
Holland is so essentially a tidy country that nothing old or
moss
-
grown
is tolerated.
11
When Christian left the drawing-room he walked quickly down the
moss
-
grown
path to the moat.
12
He leaned up against the
moss
-
grown
wall, looking back into the darkness of the lane.
13
Vigfusson sat down on the
moss
-
grown
rock and pondered.
14
Or bow my head on
moss
-
grown
rocks to sleep.
15
Go to a lone house at Lambeth, with
moss
-
grown
steps down to the water's edge.
16
The moon was casting a ghastly light over the great
moss
-
grown
stone and the deserted wolds.