Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Old-fashioned.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Old-fashioned; clinging to what is old: opposed to newfangled.
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- adjective
old-fashioned
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And then there are the folks who fail to reply to an oldfangled email on a business matter or a friendly inquiry at the same time you notice them yammering away on Facebook.
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PT: In a hyperactive world, the writing of fiction — and perhaps the reading of it — must seem slow, dull, even pedestrian and oldfangled.
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The White House's email server went down early Thursday morning, forcing staffers to reacquaint themselves with oldfangled forms of communication.
White House Email Outage Forces Staffers To Use Phones, Fax The Huffington Post 2011
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PT: In a hyperactive world, the writing of fiction — and perhaps the reading of it — must seem slow, dull, even pedestrian and oldfangled.
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The White House s email server went down early Thursday morning, forcing staffers to reacquaint themselves with oldfangled forms of communication.
White House Email Outage Forces Staffers To Use Phones, Fax The Huffington Post 2011
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The White House's email server went down early Thursday morning, forcing staffers to reacquaint themselves with oldfangled forms of communication.
White House Email Outage Forces Staffers To Use Phones, Fax The Huffington Post 2011
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The White House's email server went down early Thursday morning, forcing staffers to reacquaint themselves with oldfangled forms of communication.
White House Email Outage Forces Staffers To Use Phones, Fax The Huffington Post 2011
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The White House s email server went down early Thursday morning, forcing staffers to reacquaint themselves with oldfangled forms of communication.
White House Email Outage Forces Staffers To Use Phones, Fax The Huffington Post 2011
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The White House's email server went down early Thursday morning, forcing staffers to reacquaint themselves with oldfangled forms of communication.
White House Email Outage Forces Staffers To Use Phones, Fax The Huffington Post 2011
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A salmi is an oldfangled, richly flavored game stew — often served, like chipped beef, over toast — that was a delicacy popular in the 1890s.
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