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- adverb In an
old-fashioned manner.
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Examples
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The emotional waters are muddied, and when Mizzy seems to make himself available to Peter, Peter can't be sure if he's doing so out of desire or old-fashionedly again in the hope of blackmailing him.
Alan Hollinghurst On Michael Cunningham: The New York Review Of Books The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The emotional waters are muddied, and when Mizzy seems to make himself available to Peter, Peter can't be sure if he's doing so out of desire or old-fashionedly again in the hope of blackmailing him.
Alan Hollinghurst On Michael Cunningham: The New York Review Of Books The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The emotional waters are muddied, and when Mizzy seems to make himself available to Peter, Peter can't be sure if he's doing so out of desire or old-fashionedly again in the hope of blackmailing him.
Alan Hollinghurst On Michael Cunningham Sammy Perlmutter 2010
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I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets.
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The writers are trying to be old-fashionedly linear and I'm usually going to click away quickly.
Does reading on the internet count as reading? Ann Althouse 2008
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The puff on the bed they put me in smelled old-fashionedly of flake soap, the way my mother's laundry used to when I helped her carry the wet wash basket out back to the clothesline.
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The puff on the bed they put me in smelled old-fashionedly of flake soap, the way my mother's laundry used to when I helped her carry the wet wash basket out back to the clothesline.
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He had excellent manners; his speech was almost old-fashionedly formal, as though he had spent a long time with older people.
Lesson to Learn Jordan, Penny 1997
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He had excellent manners; his speech was almost old-fashionedly formal, as though he had spent a long time with older people.
Lesson To Learn Jordan, Penny 1997
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He had excellent manners; his speech was almost old-fashionedly formal, as though he had spent a long time with older people.
Lesson to Learn Jordan, Penny 1997
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