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old-fashioned look

old-fashioned look noun: a glance of disdain or disapproval.

Noun

old-fashioned look (plural old-fashioned looks)

  1. (idiomatic) A glance of disdain or disapproval.
    • He produced his Agreement and, as he put it in – that is to say, tendered it as evidence – he gave me an old-fashioned look; and that, of course, told me that the rotten thing wasn't stamped.2001, Dornford Yates, B-Berry and I Look Back, page 141
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see old-fashioned, look.
    • The sepia photographs had an old-fashioned look.

Forms of old-fashioned look

pluralold-fashioned looks

Questions about old-fashioned look

What does old-fashioned look mean?
Old-fashioned look means a glance of disdain or disapproval.
What part of speech is old-fashioned look?
Old-fashioned look is a noun.
What is the plural of old-fashioned look?
The plural of old-fashioned look is old-fashioned looks.

Words near old-fashioned look in the dictionary

  1. old-fangled
  2. old-farrand
  3. old-farrant
  4. old-fashion
  5. old-fashioned
  6. old-fashioned look
  7. old-fashioned looks
  8. old-fashionedly
  9. old-fashionedness
  10. old-fashioneds
  11. old-field colt

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