Sentence examples for antiquated expression from inspiring English sources

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A Mitică is present in the piece called Ţal!... the title comes from a face ţal ("to make ţal"), an antiquated expression which, as Caragiale explains in the beginning of his story, means "to make a payment" (from the German zahlen).

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In "Deadwood," however, those words are sprinkled alongside more antiquated expressions: a loss at the poker table puts gamblers in a "brown study," and drunks confess to having "a weakness for spirits".

Glazing creates an antiquated look for your cabinets.

It is wrong, however, to call a disabled person, "crippled," "handicapped" or any other antiquated or offensive expression.

A more overarching question is this: Why should The Times, and newspapers in general, continue to do political endorsements at all? Isn't this an antiquated practice that — in its clear expression of preference — causes even more mistrust among a public that often feels its newspaper is biased?

The Royal Society could not look more antiquated..

This was classic rock, after all, a form of expression that pop trend-setters consider as antiquated as monarchism and, according to its acolytes, as endangered.

6. Decriminalise defamation: The antiquated offence of criminal defamation violates international standards of free expression.

The use of the word crossdressing is perhaps antiquated in that a person's gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexuality, and with modern medicine, sex, can be defined, re-defined, and changed and expressed in whatever way an individual desires.

But democracy, freedom of expression, and, above all, the right to truth are not antiquated pieties.

According to the documents market testing "confirmed a high level of interest from the commercial sector in providing these claims and payments services" with 48 responses to a request for expressions of interest as senior bureaucrats considered how to update antiquated government payment systems.

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