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Meanings of standpat in English

Old-fashioned and out of date.

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Examples for "fusty"
Examples for "fusty"
1
Here was a feisty young talent taking on an out-of-touch, fusty establishment.
Rock and Ice Magazine
2
Pelham, please, do try not to be such a fusty old nanny.
Warlord: an alex hawke novel
3
A fusty old cab, a four-wheeler, a growler, don't you call them?
We Two: A Novel
4
Stereotype says they're fusty, but the reality is absolutely the opposite.
Wired
5
We expect Poussins to inhabit a zone of studious murmuring and fusty hauteur.
The Guardian
1
But none the less are they helpless, unprogressive, and incapable of learning.
The Nature of Goodness
2
I felt no condemnation; yet the memory, static, unprogressive, haunted me.
The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds
3
This absence of popular education, more than anything else, made Oriental civilization unprogressive.
Early European History
4
The policy of promoters of African colonization, however, did not immediately become unprogressive.
The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 / A History of the Educ...
5
In this passive, abstract, unprogressive state, they have remained ever since.
Popular Tales from the Norse
1
The subsidence was nonprogressive, and no subsidence occurred after the 1st year.
Pubmed
2
Most patients had a nonprogressive clinical course despite the presence of severe symptoms.
Pubmed
3
Although steatosis alone seems to be nonprogressive, some patients with NASH can progress.
Pubmed
4
Eighteen months of follow-up revealed a static nonprogressive disease.
Pubmed
5
Case report: Two unrelated patients presented with slowly progressive or nonprogressive proximal muscle weakness since childhood.
Pubmed
Usage of standpat in English
1
In Congress, farmers and fishermen, standpat Republicans and Progressives hostile to the Administration, waged war against the bargain.
The Canadian Dominion: A Chronicle of Our Northern Neighbor
Standpat through the time