Adam Lashinsky

Newfangled online sites like 'Business Insider' and 'Huffington Post' built businesses they later sold for hundreds of millions of dollars by ripping off the work of more talented journalists and then playing Google's digitally native games better than the old fogeys ever could.

American Editor

Jennifer Lee

In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing or newfangled basting techniques that we read about in magazines.

American Journalist

Travis Knight

We're not purists about stop-motion. If there's a tool we can use that makes more sense to bring something to life in a better way, we'll use it, whether that's hand-drawn animation or CG or some newfangled technology we're developing.

American Producer

Nathan Lane

I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.

American Actor

Often suggests the speaker thinks the thing is unnecessary or overly complicated.

Slight Disapproval

Used when older people refer to something younger people are used to.

Generational Gap

Commonly describes recent advancements or devices in technology.

Technological Context

 might be able to use this newfangled technology to actually interact with a nurse or a doctor on the other end of the line. Wow, what a great day that will be once we're allowed to actually do those kinds of things. So, these are what I would call behavioral markers.

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 or to be blogging, which must seem like some sort of newfangled thing that "back in my day," they never had. So when Granny pulls out her smart phone to post pictures of her dentures or her grandkids, irony ensues.

Newfangled

Slight Disapproval

Generational Gap

Technological Context

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