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单词 hoary
释义
hoary
adjective
uk
/ˈhɔː.ri/us
/ˈhɔːr.i/
old-fashioned
veryoldandfamiliarandthereforenotinterestingorfunny:
老掉牙的，老套的
He told a few hoaryoldjokesand nobodylaughed.他讲了几个老掉牙的笑话，没人觉得好笑。
literary
(of aperson) veryoldand withwhiteorgreyhair
（人）老的，白发的，头发灰白的
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Tedious and uninspiring
  • anonymous
  • banal
  • basic
  • be (as) dull as ditchwateridiom
  • bland
  • marginal
  • marmoreal
  • meh
  • menial
  • middle-aged
  • slow
  • soulless
  • spinach
  • staid
  • stale
  • staleness
  • stuffy
  • tame
  • turgid
  • worthy
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Old or old-fashioned
Describing people who are old
(Definition ofhoaryfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhoary

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No one would argue with the shaping force of ' culturally traditional ' transmission, though the individuating role of the griot, griotte or karisi is ahoarysubject in oral literary debates.
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We heard thehoaryold arguments about jacking up prices and cutting public expenditure.
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They have trotted out the samehoaryold studies on minimum wages.
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Then we have had thehoarystory about the waste of public money.
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I shall deal with those twohoary, old, ornithological squawks once and for all.
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I turn to thehoarychestnut of foreign competition.
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I have been told that this question is ahoaryannual.
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My second reason for having some misgivings is thehoaryold matter called "consultation".
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Thehoaryold myth that young people become lone parents because of the availability of benefits is precisely that.
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No doubt they will cease to be cadets and becomehoaryveterans in that process.
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The second part of the amendment refers to thehoaryold idea that we are overtaxed and spending too much in the public sector.
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I thought that this ratherhoaryold chestnut had long since fallen to the ground.
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The otherhoaryquestion we must examine about the industry is its profits.
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Their sixth argument was thehoaryold annual which comes up every time— administrative convenience.
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The first is thehoaryold question of funding, which must be considered.
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