Meaning & use
hoary
Grayish white in color, especially describing hair whitened by age, or so old as to be worn out and overly familiar.
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The hoary old fisherman had spent sixty years working the same stretch of coast.
He told the same hoary joke at every family dinner for years.
A note on using this word
Hoary can describe literal gray hair or, figuratively, an idea or story so old it has become a cliché.
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