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old-fashionedly
adverb
mainly disapprovinguk /ˌəʊldˈfæʃ.ənd.li/ us /ˌoʊldˈfæʃ.ənd.li/
in a way that is not modern or is typical of a time in the past:
She likes to wear her hair in an old-fashionedly severe style.
I came to appreciate her old-fashionedly polite manner.
I take an old-fashionedly strict view of this kind of behaviour, and will be asking for an appropriate punishment.
He still refers old-fashionedly to the radio as "the wireless".
I still insist, perhaps rather old-fashionedly, on using proper punctuation and spelling in my text messages.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Old or old-fashioned
age-old
ageing
ancient
antediluvian
anti-progressive
fossilization
fossilize
fossilized
frumpy
fustily
outdate
outdated
outdatedly
outmoded
outworn
unmodernized
unmodish
unprogressive
unreconstructed
unsmart
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old-fashioned
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