hoary 的定义
hoar·i·er, hoar·i·est.
- gray or white with age: an old dog with a hoary muzzle.
- ancient or venerable: hoary myths.
- tedious from familiarity; stale: Please don't tell that hoary joke at dinner again tonight.
hoary 近义词
ancient
hoary 的近义词 16 个
- age-old
- antiquated
- timeworn
- aged
- antique
- elderly
- lot of mileage
- old
- old-fashioned
- older
- oldie
- out-of-date
- relic
- rusty
- venerable
- very old
hoary 的反义词 1 个
gray or white
更多hoary例句
- Colleagues say Schumer’s hoary bromides and constant solicitousness mask a fierce intelligence–one smart enough to know that people prefer feeling like they’re being heard to feeling like they’re being led.
- “Canary in the coal mine” has become a hoary environmental saw.
- I tried to avoid famously hoary puns like “Tequila Mockingbird” or “My Corona,” though I didn’t insist that some joke had never been made before by anyone ever.
- This is just one of those cases when the hoary cliché is true.
- Every president and political movement, of course, brings to power an often-hoary group of grasping interest groups.
- The idea is an old one—or as the irritable Economist magazine calls it, “hoary.”
- Here we taste a mingling of modern elegance and hoary antiquity, such as has never ere now graced life for either of us.
- Hoary sires crept along on their staffs, followed by sons and sons' sons and daughters also.
- He describes the storm sweeping over the white-crested mountains till the earth, like a hoary king, trembles with fear.
- Over the screen of trees you can see beautiful Delhi lying within its hoary walls.
- She placed her hand lovingly on the edge of a hoary shutter.