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old-fashionedly

Definitions

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  • adverb In an old-fashioned manner.

Etymologies

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old-fashioned +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets.

    Considering Christopher Buckley's Obama Endorsement 2008

  • 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

  • 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.

    Licks of Love in the Heart of the Cold War 1998

  • 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.

    Licks of Love in the Heart of the Cold War 1998

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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