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  • adjective comparative form of hoary: more hoary

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Examples

  • But last week, to the delight of Democrats and comedians throughout the land, Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney managed to mash up "my friend" with an even hoarier sound bite.

    Michael Sigman: Corporations Are a Mitt's Best Friend Michael Sigman 2011

  • Consequently, Sorba and others have urged conservatives to stop using the G-word, and revert to older, hoarier notions like "sodomy."

    Jay Michaelson: Who Are The Real Sodomites? Jay Michaelson 2011

  • In the most famous example, from the Book of Genesis, Enoch father of the even hoarier Methuselah doesn't simply keel over at the ripe old age of 300 but is "translated," body and soul, into heaven.

    Foreign to Familiar, Essence Intact Eric Ormsby 2011

  • But last week, to the delight of Democrats and comedians throughout the land, Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney managed to mash up "my friend" with an even hoarier sound bite.

    Michael Sigman: Corporations Are a Mitt's Best Friend Michael Sigman 2011

  • But last week, to the delight of Democrats and comedians throughout the land, Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney managed to mash up "my friend" with an even hoarier sound bite.

    Michael Sigman: Corporations Are a Mitt's Best Friend Michael Sigman 2011

  • Consequently, Sorba and others have urged conservatives to stop using the G-word, and revert to older, hoarier notions like "sodomy."

    Jay Michaelson: Who Are The Real Sodomites? Jay Michaelson 2011

  • There is a limited number of useful topics for such occasions, and some of the hoarier topics have been relentlessly trotted out at every con since God Created Convention.

    Pros at Cons at SF Novelists 2010

  • In the most famous example, from the Book of Genesis, Enoch father of the even hoarier Methuselah doesn't simply keel over at the ripe old age of 300 but is "translated," body and soul, into heaven.

    Foreign to Familiar, Essence Intact Eric Ormsby 2011

  • But last week, to the delight of Democrats and comedians throughout the land, Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney managed to mash up "my friend" with an even hoarier sound bite.

    Michael Sigman: Corporations Are a Mitt's Best Friend Michael Sigman 2011

  • Ms. Miller's imprisonment for civil contempt of court was less a perfect storm — to use one of the press 'hoarier clichés to characterize a grim convergence of unpleasant events — as it was a brownout, a distressing midsummer sign that a full power outage is on its way.

    The Great D.C. Plame-Out, Or: Novak, Lord of the Journo-Flies 2005

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