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adj. - Old-fashioned and out of date.

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Usage examples (15)
  • His half-cocked smile and his standpat spurs really jingle my jangle.
  • By contrast, Bush's pitch is standpat: rely on business to create jobs; resist higher government spending.
  • Woodrow Wilson, college professor, man of mystery, political recluse, the nominee of the most standpat Democratic convention of many years, had been chosen the leader of...
  • Why do we attitude rattling standpat region managers?
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