Sentence examples for fogey from inspiring English sources

With a bookish "young fogey" style already formed, he pressed on to Oxford, before heading home to be a reporter at the Aberdeen Press and Journal.

"Here is a stickler from an earlier age … here is pettifogging fogey made flesh".

Both party leaders regard Mr Havel as a moralising and interfering old fogey.

As a student he was something of a young fogey, snobbish, solitary and obsessed with cleanliness.

He grew famous, his prices soared and by the 1960s, to young pop artists, he was an old fogey.

Although the prince was a mere 13 years older than she, Diana saw him as an old fogey, approaching middle age.

"Why don't we talk about something else?" he pleaded as Mair went for him like a dog with a bone and delving into the darker corners of Boris's rise to become the country's favourite young fogey.

Clive Candy wasn't just the heroic young soldier with the Victoria Cross from the Boer War who had somehow turned into a blustering fogey by the time of the Second World War.

Fleshing out the concept of "young fogeys" in 1984: "The young fogey... is libertarian but not liberal.

That's why I like fogey programmes like Foyle's War and Poirot".

Rascal's partying days may be over n "I'm tired of partying, man," complains hip hop's young fogey Dizzee Rascal.