newfangled
IPA: nufˈæŋgʌɫd
adjective
- (usually derogatory, disapproving, or humorous) new and often needlessly novel or gratuitously different; recently devised or fashionable, especially when not an improvement.
- Fond of novelty.
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Examples of "newfangled" in Sentences
- Some people shake their heads over what they call newfangled notions.
- So, John, those are just some of the kind of newfangled approaches to help snoring.
- Gumbolt Gap, they were all opposed to any "newfangled" notions, and they regarded everything that came from carpet-baggers as "robbery and corruption."
- It takes that old chestnut of a Cinderella myth, pumps it full of new life and vitality, and sends it spinning off into the ether like some kind of newfangled original tale.
- Concerns have been raised about having the "newfangled" traffic control right in the vicinity of the school, where young, inexperienced drivers will be driving through it regularly.
- Stewart Guthrie, professor emeritus of anthropology at Fordham University, was not surprised by the growing interest in newfangled notions about what those Maya time keepers might have had in mind as far back as AD 200.
- What the marketing guys really meant when they called their newfangled cooking systems infrared, was radiant heat because there is a radiant surface, a plate of glass, ceramics, or metal, between the burners and the cooking grates.
- And yet, I'm so very fond of the "Dr. Virago" persona and I worry that if I blogged under my own name I'd be less inclined to squeal about being able to see baby animals at the zoo or mock our U's president for his "newfangled" blog (which, as you know, deserves serious mocking).
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