Use the adjective hoary to describe something that is old and worn out like the hoary jokes your great uncle Albert clings to.
White or whitish.
Adjective S.
covered with fine whitish hairs or down
Adjective S.
ancient; "hoary jokes"
Adjective S.
showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"
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White or whitish.
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White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs.
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remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.
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Moldy; mossy; musty.
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Of a pale silvery gray.
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Covered with short, dense, grayish white hairs; canescent.
Hoary
Reverence the hoary head.3.
White or whitish.
Usage Examples
The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.
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Other Usage ExamplesIt is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.
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