A state of nervousness created by a growing amount of evidence which suggests that an otherwise coherent and wise individual might have WAAAAY too many skeletons in the closet for your comfort level.
"I mean, I want to trust the guy. I really do. He says all the right things. But did you hear about the babysitter? That shit is just too Pictouesque for me bro.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)