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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "superannuated" in a sentence

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    superannuated


    1. to brimming with superannuated school kids


    2. But a superannuated man is devoid of his income in


    3. Lamb’s essay The superannuated Man gives a touching expression to


    4. So, stifling a natural regret at the thought of the home comforts he would leave behind him, he said stoutly, Bless your soul, I'm not superannuated yet


    5. It was a fresh kind of place, all circumstances considered, where the wind from the river had room to turn itself round; and there were two or three trees in it, and there was the stump of a ruined windmill, and there was the Old Green Copper Ropewalk,—whose long and narrow vista I could trace in the moonlight, along a series of wooden frames set in the ground, that looked like superannuated haymaking-rakes which had grown old and lost most of their teeth


    6. On more than one occasion, a dozen at the lowest, near the North Bull at Dollymount he had remarked a superannuated old salt, evidently derelict, seated habitually near the not particularly redolent sea on the wall, staring quite obliviously at it and it at him, dreaming of fresh woods and pastures new as someone somewhere sings


    7. I said but little, for I saw it would be of no use; I, however, took a canny opportunity of remarking to old Mr Dinledoup, the English teacher, that this castle-building scheme of an academy would cause great changes probably in the masters; and as, no doubt, it would oblige us to adopt the new methods of teaching, I would like to have a private inkling of what salary he would expect on being superannuated


    8. The worthy man was hale and hearty, not exceeding three score and seven, and had never dreamt of being superannuated


    9. consent to be superannuated


    10. When he reached Flower Hill, his mom was waiting in Dad’s superannuated armchair

    11. However, this quarter, which had a superannuated rather than an antique air, was tending even then to transformation


    12. now superannuated fashion, at M


    13. I have known a great deal of the trouble of annuities; for my mother was clogged with the payment of three to old superannuated servants by my father’s will, and it is amazing how disagreeable she found it


    14. Daddy Eroshka was a superannuated and solitary Cossack: twenty years ago his wife had gone over to the Orthodox Church and run away from him and married a Russian sergeant-major, and he had no children


    15. “Pemberton’s” was a small hotel near the village of Greenough, somewhere, perhaps anywhere, on the southern coast of Long Island, frequented mostly by sailors, not superannuated exactly, but at least of the age when men who have had an active and adventurous life like to sit around and tell of what they have seen and done, or listen while some one else tells of their experiences


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    Synonyms for "superannuated"

    out-of-date outdated superannuated over-the-hill overage overaged dated antiquated antique obsolescent obsolete old-time

    "superannuated" definitions

    too old to be useful


    old; no longer valid or fashionable