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[ US /ˌnuˈfæŋɡəɫd/ ]
[ UK /njˈuːfæŋɡə‍ld/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new
    newfangled ideas
    she buys all these new-fangled machines and never uses them

How To Use newfangled In A Sentence

  • If you were really lucky, you had one of those newfangled local commercial stations with DJs that talked really fast so they could fit the adverts in.
  • I guess you could say that the brewer itself has a hint of newfangledness about it but that’s not the issue here. Outfoxed Diary Entry
  • The word sabotage is storied to be from the French word for wooden shoe, sabot, to recall how French workers threw their shoes into newfangled machinery to foil the efforts of industrial revolution bosses. Survival of the Savvy
  • With the rise of online play, newfangled regular size discs, and violence, Nintendo is having trouble keeping up.
  • Then, the financial jest with acerbic only zealous those past economist, what had become American at one's leisure today is newfangled.
  • For all the newfangledness of the iPad, there's a precedent for cross-platform deals. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • The heathen men said it was no wonder they had ill weather that autumn; it was all the king's newfangledness and the new law that had made the gods angry. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature
  • I can wind my horn, though I call not the blast either a recheate or a morte -- - I can cheer my dogs on the prey, and I can flay and quarter the animal when it is brought down, without using the newfangled jargon of curee, arbor, nombles, and all the babble of the fabulous Sir Tristrem. Ivanhoe. A Romance
  • The United States did not adopt the newfangled smokeless powder until 1892, a few years after it became widely available.
  • The time soon came when he was forced to give way before the march of newfangledness. Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States
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