Adjective : an old-fashioned bathing suit. ,old-fashioned ideas. ,a delightfully old-fashioned gentleman. From Dictionary.com.
Anyway: on the surface, the old-fashionedness is in the freedom. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference
Its fatal old-fashionedness hangs like a millstone about its neck. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
Her having you on all fours in her surgery seems a trifle unconventional if you'll excuse my old-fashionedness!. From Wordnik.com. [Went to My Doctor] Reference
While playing a game of 'boston' he whispered into Jacqueline's ear something about the old-fashionedness and stupidity of Paul and. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
To her relief, for all their old-fashionedness, the Shadowhunters seemed to believe in modern plumbing and hot and cold running water. From Wordnik.com. [City of Glass] Reference
Poor Starkey, when young, had that peculiar stamp of old-fashionedness in his face which makes it impossible for a beholder to predicate any particular age in the object. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
What may have smelled sharp, bitter, spicy, acrid and dry at first – with a dash of aldehydes for a good measure of old-fashionedness – turned into a quite interesting yet very wearable fragrance. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
There is always a certain flavour of old-fashionedness about my gowns and hats. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903] Reference
The Duke of Stone knew, and thought the old-fashionedness of the idea quite the last touch of modernity. From Wordnik.com. [T. Tembarom] Reference
This, I must confess, surprised me much; and I pondered the saying long, but could come at no satisfactory conclusion as to that wherein my old-fashionedness lay. From Wordnik.com. [The Coral Island] Reference
The gown was of the simplest summer material, but its very simplicity, and a certain lack of “latest fashion” rather than “old-fashionedness” gave it a quality of respectability. From Wordnik.com. [The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him]
Everything about her matched her sweet old-fashionedness, from the crown of her soft brown hair, dressed in the style of her long ago girlhood, to the toes of her daintily slippered feet. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904] Reference
The house in which they lived, and which was their own, was a somewhat remarkable one -- I do not mean because it retained almost all the old-fashionedness of a hundred and fifty years, but for other reasons. From Wordnik.com. [Weighed and Wanting] Reference
Quiet country folk we were; old-fashioned, and boastful of our old-fashionedness, albeit it meant little more than that our manners and customs were a generation behindhand of the more cultivated folk, who live nearer to London. From Wordnik.com. [We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys] Reference
Yet not one of the family had ever cared for it on the ground of its old-fashionedness; its preservation was owing merely to the fact that their gardener was blessed with a wholesome stupidity rendering him incapable of unlearning what his father, who had been gardener there before him, had had marvellous difficulty in teaching him. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Wingfold, Curate] Reference
"old-fashionedness" gave it a quality of respectability. From Wordnik.com. [The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him] Reference
(That "Balderdash!" is symptomatic of her quirky old-fashionedness ” her forthright and emphatic turn of mind.). From Wordnik.com. [Keeper of the Jewels] Reference
Wouldn’t it be great, for instance, to get agents, editors, and writers together for a long weekend to talk about the issue of old-fashionedness?. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Manuscript formatting 101, part II: presenting your writing nicely framed] Reference
The story, which ran in the New York Evening Telegram, is almost comic in it’s old-fashionedness, with its mix of 19th Century genteelisms, tried and true journalistic cliches, the obviously doctored quotes --- although I’m sure as an actress Marion was adept at speaking in character offstage as well as on --- and the mustache-twirling salaciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Lance Mannion:] Reference
You look at the street from one end, and put it down in your mind as no better than a lane; you walk down it without noticing the merits of the buildings it contains; whereas in Melbourne both the general effect and each individual building are shown off to the greatest advantage; but there is a certain picturesqueness and old-fashionedness about Sydney, which brings back pleasant memories of Old England, after the monotonous perfection of Melbourne and Adelaide. From Wordnik.com. [Town Life in Australia] Reference
They smiled indulgently at my old-fashionedness. From Wordnik.com. [Forever Free]
"I liked the old-fashionedness of it.". From Wordnik.com. [latimes.com - News] Reference
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