superannuated
IPA: supɝˈænjʌweɪtɪd
adjective
- Obsolete, antiquated.
- Retired or discarded due to age.
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Examples of "superannuated" in Sentences
- Is he a superannuated footballer
- He was superannuated in the year 1986.
- People aren't interested to superannuated rock star.
- Still in ill health, he was declared superannuated in 1813.
- Superannuated pilots were retired or assigned to other duties.
- He was superannuated in 1831, unable to continue riding circuits.
- But it was sadly apparent that most of them were superannuated lechers.
- He should lose his job but will probably survive in superannuated comfort.
- Her social circle also included wealthy superannuated playboy Bernie Cornfeld.
- The AARP, self-styled lobby for the superannuated, is trying to rally oldsters behind ObamaCare.
- Could His poor, feeble, "superannuated" old servant ever speak the message that needed to be spoken that night?
- However, John, a superannuated rugger player and general games addict, was transformed overnight into a ski enthusiast.
- "Your wife, what is she?" said Sarcus the rich, one day, when unable to digest the fatal word "superannuated," applied to a piece of furniture he had just bought at a bargain.
- [39] Mordaunt Ricketts was Resident at Lucknow between 1821 and 1830, when he was 'superannuated' owing to financial scandals, for the details of which see Sir G. Trevelyan, _Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay_, cap.
- On August 5, 1803, Alexander was pensioned as "superannuated" by the board, and retired on an allowance of £677 a year (Irish money), but continued to live in Dublin, until sometime before 1810, when he removed to Inveresk, Scotland.
- There was a black barge, or some other kind of superannuated boat, not far off, high and dry on the ground, with an iron funnel sticking out of it for a chimney and smoking very cosily; but nothing else in the way of a habitation that was visible to me.