Old-worldly

"Old-worldly" in a Sentence (1 examples)

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.

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