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also fogey
as in conservative
a person with old-fashioned ideas
old fogies who said that rap music would never last
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Recent Examples of fogy
For the benefit of us old fogies?
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2026
Now the 10% is for stubborn old fogies who refuse to change their ways and try something new.
—Chris McKeown, Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Feb. 2026
Old fogey-ish, ungrateful and stupid.
—Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2025
These are people who know AI and have grown up with this stuff that these old fogies haven't.
—Alison Snyder, Axios, 23 Feb. 2025
And some of us older fogies, Joni Mitchell and Carole King.
—Lars Brandle, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2023
The parents—a dapper young fogy with ramrod posture and a soulful, slightly rumpled bluestocking—stand behind two tidy little girls in matching sailor suits.
—Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
Young people with the right stuff can be far more resilient than we old fogies suspect.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 25 Feb. 2023
Consequently, throughout the 1970s and ’80s Wilson was viewed as a Tory, a young fogy.
—Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2022
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2026
Now the 10% is for stubborn old fogies who refuse to change their ways and try something new.
—Chris McKeown, Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Feb. 2026
Old fogey-ish, ungrateful and stupid.
—Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2025
These are people who know AI and have grown up with this stuff that these old fogies haven't.
—Alison Snyder, Axios, 23 Feb. 2025
And some of us older fogies, Joni Mitchell and Carole King.
—Lars Brandle, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2023
The parents—a dapper young fogy with ramrod posture and a soulful, slightly rumpled bluestocking—stand behind two tidy little girls in matching sailor suits.
—Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
Young people with the right stuff can be far more resilient than we old fogies suspect.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 25 Feb. 2023
Consequently, throughout the 1970s and ’80s Wilson was viewed as a Tory, a young fogy.
—Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fogy
Noun
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Those comments largely served as a testament to the staunch conservative’s willingness to work across the aisle to secure funding for his district.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
1 Apr. 2026
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The court, in which conservatives hold a 6-3 majority, will decide whether to uphold its 1898 ruling that a man born in San Francisco to Chinese parents could be an American citizen.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2026
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The play, like the movie, is loosely based on a robbery that took place in 1972, on a boiling-hot August day, when an eccentric, deep-in-debt Vietnam veteran named John Wojtowicz entered a Chase bank in Brooklyn with a gun and two accomplices, hoping for a quick score.—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
2 Apr. 2026
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Tickets are $15, general admission; and $10 for veterans, students, seniors, and PWD.—
Christina Mayo,
Miami Herald,
2 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Perhaps the most intriguing fossils are the ones that potentially represent deuterostomes, the animal group that includes vertebrates, as well as starfish and sea urchins.—
Mindy Weisberger,
CNN Money,
4 Apr. 2026
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Completely fossil-fuel-free, Kilchoan is the number one customer of Knoydart Renewables, and has built a new water borehole and provided equipment and modern sewage-treatment plants for the area.—
Jen Murphy,
Robb Report,
4 Apr. 2026
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“Fogy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fogy. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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