Examples of dirty old man in a Sentence
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On the show, she was known for using her purse as a weapon to whack Arte Johnson’s dirty old man character on the park bench.
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Pat Saperstein, Variety, 2 May 2025
Covered from head to toe in drab brown and sporting a bun hairdo covered by a hairnet knotted in the middle of her forehead, Gladys could be found on a park bench, where dirty old man Tyrone F. Horneigh (Arte Johnson) would sidle up to her and make an off-color, insulting remark.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 2 May 2025
My reality self felt like a dirty old man who needed to pay to play.
—Michael Rasky, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2022
Comedian Arte Johnson — best known for playing the dirty old man opposite Ruth Buzzi’s purse-hurling spinster on Laugh-In — is dead.
—Lynette Rice, EW.com, 3 July 2019
Even the hotel’s tart proprietor (Rema Webb) and resident dirty old man (Don Sparks) are required to hook up.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2018
Her Petruchio, here, tells her not to worry because the sisterhood on stage alongside her – including a show-stealing Hollis Resnik, doubling as club custodian and a dirty old man – has her back.
—Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Oct. 2017
So, was Hugh Hefner a libertine or a dirty old man?
—CBS News, 1 Oct. 2017
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Pat Saperstein, Variety, 2 May 2025
Covered from head to toe in drab brown and sporting a bun hairdo covered by a hairnet knotted in the middle of her forehead, Gladys could be found on a park bench, where dirty old man Tyrone F. Horneigh (Arte Johnson) would sidle up to her and make an off-color, insulting remark.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 2 May 2025
My reality self felt like a dirty old man who needed to pay to play.
—Michael Rasky, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2022
Comedian Arte Johnson — best known for playing the dirty old man opposite Ruth Buzzi’s purse-hurling spinster on Laugh-In — is dead.
—Lynette Rice, EW.com, 3 July 2019
Even the hotel’s tart proprietor (Rema Webb) and resident dirty old man (Don Sparks) are required to hook up.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2018
Her Petruchio, here, tells her not to worry because the sisterhood on stage alongside her – including a show-stealing Hollis Resnik, doubling as club custodian and a dirty old man – has her back.
—Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Oct. 2017
So, was Hugh Hefner a libertine or a dirty old man?
—CBS News, 1 Oct. 2017
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“Dirty old man.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dirty%20old%20man. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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