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hoary
[hawr-ee, hohr-ee]
adjective
gray or white with age.
an old dog with a hoary muzzle.
Synonyms: , ,ancient or venerable.
hoary myths.
Synonyms: , , ,tedious from familiarity; stale.
Please don't tell that hoary joke at dinner again tonight.
hoary
/ ˈɔːɪ /
adjective
having grey or white hair
white or whitish-grey in colour
ancient or venerable
Other 51Թ Forms
- hoarily adverb
- hoariness noun
- unhoary adjective
- ˈDzԱ noun
- ˈDz adverb
Example Sentences
Republican operatives learned from Bush that falsified evidence is an excellent way to manufacture public consent, to use a hoary academic term.
At its foundation, the movie is a hoary cliché with quirk spackled on it.
The company of performers assembled to perform this hoary property consists of has-beens, wannabes, klutzes and martyred veterans.
These field exposure estimates informed subsequent studies on the impact of such exposure on hibernating bumble bee queens and the hoary squash bee, a solitary ground-nesting species.
It wasn’t; it was a hoary old chestnut that had already proved its inadequacy.
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