He left the house...for the support of twelve superannuated wool carders. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A superannuated civil servant. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : superannuated ideas. From Dictionary.com.
The AARP, self-styled lobby for the superannuated, is trying to rally oldsters behind ObamaCare. From Wordnik.com. ['Terrifying Numbers for Democrats'] Reference
I am now what they call a superannuated minister. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4] Reference
Could His poor, feeble, "superannuated" old servant ever speak the message that needed to be spoken that night?. From Wordnik.com. [On Christmas Day In The Evening] Reference
"Your wife, what is she?" said Sarcus the rich, one day, when unable to digest the fatal word "superannuated," applied to a piece of furniture he had just bought at a bargain. From Wordnik.com. [Sons of the Soil] Reference
She is the great-grandmother of the superannuated laundress. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 4, 1891] Reference
In the midst of that scene, an old superannuated minister of the. From Wordnik.com. [Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures] Reference
Lepidus: but when Lepidus was become sunk and superannuated in sloth; when. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola] Reference
Hamilton White was quite an old beau by comparison -- almost superannuated. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
And evidently he saw that bogie of the superannuated disappearing in the distance. From Wordnik.com. [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference
The same Cato, on a principle of economy, always sold his sick and superannuated slaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
After dark: It is difficult to drum up interest in a topic as dull as superannuated drivers. From Wordnik.com. [Take Away My License] Reference
But let not the reader suppose that he was either a superannuated coxcomb or a driveling dotard. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
Jacobs also made news by casting Laetitia Casta? at 32, considered superannuated for a supermodel. From Wordnik.com. [Madonna, Demi and other women I'd like to show their age] Reference
"I'll sit down, if you don't mind," gasped Tommy, depositing himself upon this superannuated seat. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
They looked exactly like two respectable superannuated old clergymen; one the picture of Boruwlaski. From Wordnik.com. [The "Ladies of Llangollen" as Sketched by Many Hands; with Notices of Other Objects of Interest in "That Sweetest of Vales"] Reference
As a prolific tale-teller he amused the leisure hours of superannuated sergeants and half-pay subalterns. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.] Reference
Mr. Rayne had spoken of her as one does of any superannuated person or thing that is always on hand if wanted. From Wordnik.com. [Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense] Reference
The enlightened people of Japan are tired and disgusted with the superannuated and putrefied blind imitations. From Wordnik.com. [Japan Will Turn Ablaze!] Reference
He is also now superannuated, but occasionally does a "little preaching", having only recently been down to Montezuma. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1] Reference
Judith Levine suggests that superannuated Sears and Kmarts could be turned into municipal swimming pools or community buildings. From Wordnik.com. [America the Over-Stored] Reference
American-caps had not joked for some time over his African cape or his superannuated cap, which seemed to date from Pere Bugeaud. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
My best and ablest friends here are dead; their survivors supine and superannuated; their connections new Whigs and Reformers, and. From Wordnik.com. [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference
He was coatless and shoeless, and had spread a newspaper over his bald spot to the annoyance of a few superannuated yet active flies. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
Out of the question to ask an Emperor to climb this wooden staircase, sit in these old arm-chairs, walk over such superannuated carpets. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
The superannuated ex-president, who left office 10,836 days ago, has suddenly been turning up all over the place, which can't be good for Obama. From Wordnik.com. [Project Bloat] Reference
Beside the flax-wheel stood a superannuated chest of drawers, with dingy brass handles, which had once, no doubt, been a fine piece of furniture. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887] Reference
Of these about seventy-five per cent are superannuated, sick, women in unfit condition for labor, and infants unable to work, who yield no profit. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
Here, then, beyond the picket fence, was the proclamation of his shame, -- coming from a gentle, superannuated horse with no more spirit than a snail's. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
We have no objection to his clinging to this superannuated faith and belief, if he derives any pleasure in flushing up these "traditional grasshoppers.". From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
This year it has auditioned Jake Gyllenhaal ( "Prince of Persia"), Adrien Brody ( "Predators") and even the game but superannuated Liam Neeson ( "The A-Team"). From Wordnik.com. [The Worst Movie Year Ever?] Reference
Garrick's liberality in the establishment of the fund for the relief of superannuated actors, would alone be sufficient to rescue him from the charge of avarice. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference
Vidou, a superannuated widow of ninety, who was guillotined in company with her son, an amiable and respectable man, and was unconscious of her fate till the last. From Wordnik.com. [Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819] Reference
September, 1885, the Earl of Iddesleigh approved the superannuated notion of lunar influence, and likened the leading opponents of his party to the old and new moon. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
Some of the jokes reveal just how hard it is for college-cloistered souls of a certain age to give up their most treasured touchstones, no matter how superannuated the vintage. From Wordnik.com. ['Mindset Lists' and a Mythical Generation Gap] Reference
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