(Used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned.
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Examples for "mossy "
Examples for "mossy "
1 Damp and mildew had left large mossy areas on their veranda floor.
2 The ashes of the dead had been strewn upon the mossy plains.
3 A girl sat on the mossy river-bank in the dappled, golden sunlight.
4 The trunks of the old trees were big and rough and mossy .
5 From the heart of the agate the mossy landscape comes dreaming out.
1 The London club's approach has been too stodgy to date, after all.
2 However, he moves from the flee-flowing Warriors to the stodgy , forward-based Sharks.
3 They bore no resemblance to the stodgy side seen at the Velodrome.
4 The stodgy old man answer is no, it is not a need.
5 He might call me various unflattering things, but not stodgy - not with truth.
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.
1 But what do those stick - in - the - mud , living people know about modern convenience, huh?
2 Oh, you are getting to be an old man, you stick - in - the - mud .
3 Even stick - in - the - mud lawyer Portia Bellefleur was peeking around her conservative beau to study Mickey.
4 I was once a stick - in - the - mud Halloween refusenik.
5 Naomi and Ginny exchanged the sort of glances which culinary sophisticates exchange in the presence of stick - in - the - mud louts.
1 But his scheme received no encouragement from the old - fogyish authorities.
2 Why, Jenny, I hae heard that Robert Leslie once spoke o' the house o' John Callendar & Co. as 'old fogyish ! '
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