In Europe it’s too dreary—the sapience, the solemnity, the false respectability, the verbosity, the long disquisitions on superannuated subjects.
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Superannuated
/ˌsupɚˈænjuˌeɪtɪd/
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decrepitdeserteddiscontinueddisuseddodderingdone withemeritusfossilfossilizedgothicgrown oldin retirementmedievalmid victorianmid-victoriannot worth savingobsolescentobsolete
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10 entriesaging workforceobsolescence riskretirement policysuperannuated bureaucracysuperannuated equipmentsuperannuated machinerysuperannuated policysuperannuated systemsuperannuated traditionsuperannuation policy
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The above, appearing in a publication now long ago superannuated and forgotten, is all that hitherto has stood in human record to attest what manner of men respectively were John Claggart and Billy Budd.
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Your correspondent has a handful of superannuated computers lying around the home. The sprightliest of the bunch—a 400-megahertz Pentium II that came loaded with Windows NT4.0—has found a new lease on life as a Linux server.
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To call the sexual politics of Ladette to Lady old-fashioned is an understatement. It's a horrifying revival of superannuated attitudes about women dressed up as an educational excursion into young womanhood that exploits its subjects by loading them up on alcohol when the cameras are rolling.
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