“Sleeveless errand” is superannuated slang for a fool’s errand, or fruitless endeavor.

To feel out of his sphere, retired from life, like a super-annuated functionary whose career is finished: What intolerable torture.

Once in the United States, they joined their efforts with homegrown superannuated farmers and handicrafters displaced by the machine and the factory’s finely reticulated division of labor

rather superannuated lions

For some people, a superannuated youth means postponing the question of whether you made it into the middle class