mossback

as in conservative
a person with old-fashioned ideas those mossbacks at the intelligence agency didn't get the memo that the world had changed

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Recent Examples of mossback This man performed in all of Shakespeare’s plays, Assumed all parts from mossbacks to boys young. Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2019
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Noun
  • The videos align with conservatives’ push to teach a positive view of America’s past and with the state’s rules on teaching about race and gender.
    Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2025
  • To be a conservative is, among other things, is thus to reject moral relativism.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Two veteran data journalists are launching a new investigative publication to cover rising authoritarianism from the shadowy corners of the internet.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Under the command of the unflappable Ernest McSorley, its veteran captain, the Fitz broke shipping records and tallied enormous profits.
    Kevin Duchschere, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • New precise dating techniques of a century-old fossil site in New Mexico are opening a window into the years before the collision.
    DINO GRANDONI THE WASHINGTON POST, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The Falls of the Ohio State Park in Clarksville, Indiana, is home to fossil beds from about 400 million years ago.
    Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Old fogey-ish, ungrateful and stupid.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2025
  • These are people who know AI and have grown up with this stuff that these old fogies haven't.
    Alison Snyder, Axios, 23 Feb. 2025

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“Mossback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mossback. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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