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(of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new
newfangled ideas
she buys all these new-fangled machines and never uses them
How To Use new-fangled In A Sentence
- On to this Stoker pasted some new-fangled psychiatric theory, derived from the French alienist Charcot, one of Freud's main precursors.
- Honest Pantagruel, not understanding the mystery, asked him, by way of interrogatory, what he did intend to personate in that new-fangled prosopopoeia. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
- he uttered no protest against the writ in which William King of England - the new-fangled title was now coming in - announced to all his faithful subjects, French and English, that he had given the archbishopric of Canterbury and all that belonged to it to Archbishop Anselm.
- He tells us that Green apologised to his England team-mates for his elementary blunder straight after the match but reckons that West Ham's sometime-shot-stopper shouldn't have bothered because, according to Owen, who appears to have spotted a deviation in the trajectory of Clint Dempsey's piffler that no one else saw, the goal was all down to the new-fangled ball. Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk
- Out of spite – a defiant few are parking their old caddies andnew-fangled hybrids – to hop on a scooter, take a morning jaunt to work, or ride public transport. Toll Highways…beam me up, Scottie! « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture
- mossback," or a "garrulous dotard," and with singular irreverence they took delight in twitting him upon his senility and in pestering him with divers new-fangled notions altogether distasteful, not to say shocking, to a gentleman of his years. The Holy Cross and Other Tales
- Those Germans who styled themselves ‘patriots,’ the new-fangled term imported from France, despised these seats of despotic misrule and abuse.
- He come out of a green-baize door — the very place I can point out to you, and the selfsame door, miss, though false to the accuracy of the mind that knows it, by reason of having been covered up red, and all the brass buttons lost to it in them new-fangled upholsteries. Erema
- He was cased all in that new-fangled armour which we call lizard-mail. Puck of Pook’s Hill
- In a few minutes afterwards, the two Peters were seen moving through the Parliament Close (which new-fangled affectation has termed a Square), the triumphant Drudgeit leading captive the passive Peebles, whose legs conducted him towards the dramshop, while his reverted eyes were fixed upon the court. Redgauntlet