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vieux jeu

/ vjø ʒø /

adjective

  1. old-fashioned
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of vieux jeu1

literally: old game
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Example Sentences

No amount of aesthetic top-dressing can disguise the fact that this paradigm is played out, and that the sentimental manipulation of women by men is starting to look very vieux jeu.

That’s a large part of its appeal to theatergoers for whom being hip means knowing that you’re not hip, that the whole notion of hipness is so vieux jeu.

In English, at least, this all seems a tad vieux jeu.

In "Dorian Gray," Wilde gives free play to his ever-present longing to utter the dernier cri, to avoid all that was vieux jeu, and to fill with horror and amazement the souls of the stodgy bourgeoisie.

The clerical effort was by no means vieux jeu.

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