1: too narrow a defining of the word/term in question
2: a definition that would not occur to a majority of the people asked
3: a definition of a word/term which precludes honest and open discussion of the topic
A definition of urban legend that narrows 'urban legend' to 'political urban legends' would be an unreasonable definition, only a person who knows that he could not win the argument otherwise would make such a claim.
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)