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• s  overgrown with moss
• s  (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned
  moss-grown ideas about family life

• Two endangered birds, the spotted owl and the marbled murrelet, nest in the moss-grown upper limbs of the ancient trees.
• The Authority innocently assumed that no one would object if it slipped a little mildly "hot" material into a moss-grown shaft.
• Redheaded, 67-year-old Jim Duff was locked in a rousing fight with the moss-grown, reactionary forces of bright-eyed, apple-cheeked, 87-year-old Joe Grundy.

• mossy
• fogyish
• stick-in-the-mud
• stodgy