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"At least have a modicum of decency to close the curtain before you undress."
"You're at an honor society ceremony and you can't even find a modicum of dignity to refrain from another glass of champagne?"
"You're at an honor society ceremony and you can't even find a modicum of dignity to refrain from another glass of champagne?"
Modicum by Miss.Devine May 31, 2009
fogey
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!
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)