old-timely
old-timely adjective: synonym of old-timey.
Adjective
old-timely (comparative more old-timely, superlative most old-timely)
- Synonym of old-timey.
- Nearly every town in this greatest and grandest of the Territories is in the same deplorable fix, counting its girls over every night as carefully as old-timely ladies do their chickens or spoons, and never able, by any arithmetic, to scare up more than one to every fifty fellows.1885 March 18, P. Donan, in N. Y. Sun, “Cupid in Dakota. The World’s Womanless Wonderland—A Screed from the Wild Boanerges of the Yellowstone.”, in The Waterloo Courier, volume 26, number 31 (whole...
- We dislike to mention the words, yet we must, for it sounds old-timely, and has been so much abused. GREAT REDUCTION. We like to mean what we say, and our daily aim is to stimulate confidence. So we grasp the words GREAT REDUCTION as feebly as the child in making its first effort to walk. It’s no...1888 January 7, Burk’s Clothing House, “Down They Go!”, in Norfolk Virginian, volume XLV, number 40, Norfolk, Va., page [2], column 3
- Synonyms:
- old-timey
Examples of old-timely in a sentence
- We dislike to mention the words, yet we must, for it sounds old-timely, and has been so much abused.1888 January 7, Burk’s Clothing House, “Down They Go!”, in Norfolk Virginian, volume XLV, number 40, Norfolk, Va., page [2], column 3:
- Whittier to speak or even to come to a banquet,” says the landlord (who is by the way an old-timely character worthy of a novelist’s pen), […]1892 September 7, “Stories of Whittier. His Winters in Boston—Quaint Comments on City Life—A Last Word.”, in Boston Evening Transcript...
- Members After Hours at Hoggatt School. 1860s theme with watermelon, crumb cake and other old-timely touches.2019 spring, “More Society News: Mark Your Calendars!”, in Kathy Svec, editor, Newsletter to Members, number 2/4, Ames, Ia.: Ames...
Synonyms of old-timely
Forms of old-timely
| comparative | more old-timely |
|---|---|
| superlative | most old-timely |
Origin of old-timely
From old-time + -ly.
Questions about old-timely
- What does old-timely mean?
- Old-timely means synonym of old-timey.
- How do you use old-timely in a sentence?
- We dislike to mention the words, yet we must, for it sounds old-timely, and has been so much abused.
- What part of speech is old-timely?
- Old-timely is an adjective.
Words near old-timely in the dictionary
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