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Newfangled   /nˌufˈæŋgəld/   Listen
Newfangled

adjective
1.
(of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new.  Synonym: new.  "She buys all these new-fangled machines and never uses them"






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"Newfangled" Quotes from Famous Books



... any such newfangled nonsense. It ain't none of a parson's business what the community does. You're hired, ain't you, an' paid to run the church? That's the end of it. We ain't goin' to have any mixin' of religion an' farmin' in ...
— The Friendly Road - New Adventures in Contentment • (AKA David Grayson) Ray Stannard Baker

... her what newfangled society had been got up under the name of Legation, a young gentleman with a round gold glass screwed into one eye, came out from the hive of ministers, and walked toward us, moving along slow and lazy, as if walking were too ...
— Phemie Frost's Experiences • Ann S. Stephens

... be the reply, made with the usual sigh of resignation, "I hae had a house a gey lang while now, an' I dinna think I've ever wanted ony sic newfangled things as that." ...
— The Underworld - The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner • James C. Welsh

... Loughton and the general question of small boroughs, it was found by the Government, to their great cost, that Mr. Turnbull's clause was a reality. After two months of hard work, all questions of franchise had been settled, rating and renting, new and newfangled, fancy franchises and those which no one fancied, franchises for boroughs and franchises for counties, franchises single, dual, three-cornered, and four-sided,—by various clauses to which the Committee of the whole House had agreed after some score of divisions,—the matter ...
— Phineas Finn - The Irish Member • Anthony Trollope



Words linked to "Newfangled" :   new, original



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