hoary jokes about the pure pedant's forgetfulness

a retort to the hoary old reactionary homily that utopia is alien to human nature

subscribing to some hoary ideal of seriousness of subtlety at the expense of the obvious

one theft in a hoary history

That hoary insult seems on its way to becoming a honorific.

Manhattan Beach is a pastiche of the hoary literary devices and plotlines of disability

whether earthquake or electricity failure or the hoary Millennium Bug

The maverick was most appealing, paradoxically, when he issued a hoary ode to noble traditions, to the faith of his fathers, to the Senate, to the way it used to be — as if it ever was what it used be.