old-worldly
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]old-worldly (comparative more old-worldly, superlative most old-worldly)
- old-fashioned, reminiscent of a bygone era.
- 1984 December 15, Nancy Walker, “Remembering David Stryker”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 22, page 5:
- David and I were not "intimate" friends. There was always a certain old-worldly formality about our interchanges. There was something professorial and distant about David, something that commanded respect, partially, I think, because he was so respectful himself.