17 examples of fogy in sentences

Shame on all critics that condemn MOZART as a fogy and BACH as a nuisance.

Ah, I am only a stolid, unattractive fogy, I know; but you loved me once, andI am the father of your child.

But if an old fogy may suggest something, why not forget all about the usual sort of welcome address?

Before I met this dear little Flora, I had a fair prospect of living and dying a respectable and respected old fogy, as you irreverent reformers call discreet people.

"Old fogy teacher" or "he has the old ways yet" are expressions that are too common to require any explanation.

If we permit ourselves to move in old grooves we cease to progress and become "old fogy.

original, oddity; queer fish, odd fish; quiz, square toes; old monkey, old fogey, fogey monkey, fogy monkey; buffoon &c (jester) 844; pantomimist &c (actor)

I've always believed you were an old fogy.

"Now that old fogy's gone down stairs, my dear sir, let us come to an understanding at the beginning of our acquaintance.

You may call me an old fogy, but I would rather live cheap and dress plain than shirk my burdens because I had wasted when they had saved.

The old fogy's wealth he would have at any rate, and Millicent with it, if possible, as a sort of bonus.

"Upon my soul," he laughed, so spontaneously that an old fogy at the next table said audibly to his waitress, "Bride and groom," and for some reason Bambi resented it with a flare of colour.

That we have kept up our old-fogy habits so long has nothing to do with the present question.'

"Am I not right, Mrs. Whitney?" "Don't be such an old fogy, Hiram," said Mrs. Whitney.

When after a day of fruitless balloting they changed their votes to Douglas, Buchanan, the so-called "old fogy," just returned from the English mission, and therefore not handicapped by personal jealousies and heart-burnings, had secured the firm adhesion of a decided majority mainly from the North.

You'll have a better time with a young fellow like Archie than you would with an old fogy like me, anyhow.

"It is clear, then, that one cannot judge of one's self; on the rare occasions when I look in the glass it seems to me that, in the course of the last five years, I have grown into a very old fogy.

17 examples of  fogy  in sentences