(v. t.) Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.
(v. t.) To fashion.
Example Sentences:
(1) There’s nothing new-fangled at the Stockyards; clientele is fridge-size men and Barbie-haired women saying “cute jacket” to each other.
(2) Virtual currencies aren't just a new-fangled sort of Monopoly money.
(3) He gets strapped to a table with a new-fangled laser beam pointed at his private parts: the best Bond-in-peril scene and one that is not easily escapable – our man's family jewels remain intact only thanks to the villain's inexplicable reluctance to deliver the coup de grace.
(4) But Coates had convinced her boss to check out a couple of these new-fangled nouvelle vague films, 'Chabrol and that sort of thing'.
(5) Loaded was unsophisticated, but it acknowledged that men could enjoy a contradictory array of pursuits, from outdoor sports to indoor pub games, new-fangled technology like the internet to the traditional male love of football, war and aggression.
(6) Back to the 1950s, when 18-year-olds got their heads down and scribbled furiously for three hours on the causes of the English civil war or character development in Pride and Prejudice, without any new-fangled nonsense of course assessment, projects, modules and media studies, while the streets stayed free of drugs, children respected their elders, and Winston Churchill resided in Downing Street.
(7) Victorian novels are replete with characters – particularly women characters – who exhibit what we might recognise now as some of the symptoms of anxiety disorders, from fainting to hysteria: manifestations of inner turmoil that would, in real life, have had the phrenologists running to examine their heads, and the hydropathists rushing to welcome them to their new-fangled spas (cold-water remedies were particularly popular when it came to treating what our ancestors regarded as a form of madness).
(8) Crops were swamped in their fields and the "new-fangled" tractors proved useless in the mud.
(9) I venture that the people, many of them women, who believe such things are unlikely to be swayed by new-fangled notions of equality.
(10) The Guardian's Tax Gap series this year established that a major motivation for metamorphosing old-fashioned mortgages into new-fangled securities was the desire to get money offshore.
(11) These new-fangled gizmos will be chuntering into life in football club offices all over the UK today.
(12) Last week it was suggested that in order to bring libraries into the modern era , visitors should be cossetted with new-fangled indulgences such as heating, toilets, WiFi and coffee machines.
(13) So one of her new-fangled “extreme disruption orders” will sort him out.
(14) It is always gobsmacking to hear a Tory use the phrase “class war” as if it were a bad thing – a nasty, old-fangled activity that has nothing to do with them, m’lud.
Novelty
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being novel; newness; freshness; recentness of origin or introduction.
(n.) Something novel; a new or strange thing.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is also, despite recent changes, an absolute monarchy where local elections are a novelty and women are still officially banned from driving.
(2) Novelty, as represented by a change in female partner or by a change in environment, has not increased sexual performance in old rhesus males.
(3) Novelty and immobilization induced a slight but significant increase in OT levels in the CSF immediately after the stress.
(4) The [14C]2-deoxy-glucose (2-DG) autoradiographic technique revealed that movement and novelty of a visual display affected rat visual system metabolic activity.
(5) For some of the pupils, that in itself was a novelty, including those from homes without a table to dine on, or in some cases a family to eat with.
(6) The results revealed a significant novelty preference in the two-, four- and eight-day habituation groups.
(7) Three independent dimensions of personality are defined and related to heritable variation in patterns of response to specific types of environmental stimuli: 'novelty seeking' is due to a heritable tendency toward frequent exploratory activity and intense excitement in response to novel stimuli; 'harm avoidance' is due to a heritable tendency to respond intensely to aversive stimuli and to learn to avoid punishment, novelty, and non-reward passively; and 'reward dependence' is due to a heritable tendency to respond intensely to reward and succorance and to learn to maintain rewarded behavior.
(8) For the preterms, novelty and exposure-time scores were found to be related to several medical risk factors.
(9) Diazepam and muscimol, a direct GABA agonist, were compared on behavioral inhibition induced in rats by (1) novelty, (2) punishment, and (3) nonreward.
(10) Data on vocal output of 51 preterm infants and 16 term infants were obtained during naturalistic home observations at 1, 3, and 8 months; during the administration of a preference-for-novelty paradigm in the laboratory at 8 months; and by the administration of the Gesell Developmental Schedules at 9 months.
(11) Instead, they habituated to the novelty of the runway, as grooming and sitting still replaced investigation.
(12) Infant care by multiple females and by males was observed and the conservative nature of mangabey responses to novelty noted.
(13) Pretest exposure to novelty or injections of beta-endorphin can enhance passive avoidance (PA) retention (e.g., Izquierdo & McGaugh, 1985).
(14) What has been lost in the excitement are the biological issues that relate to the rapid emergence of phenotypic novelties.
(15) At the same time, Danielle and Este were instructed not to leave Holland without checking out Amsterdam's novelty museum, the Heineken Experience.
(16) A confirmatory factor analysis of the TPQ failed to replicate the three proposed factors of novelty seeking, harm avoidance and reward dependence.
(17) Two experiments were carried out to study the effect of prior knowledge on cognitive processes related to human intelligence by examining its role in defining task novelty.
(18) I mean, it was a novelty in South Shields to see a little boy in full make-up dancing on pointe.
(19) The results suggest that CCK-5-8 can amplify the arousal enhancement elicited by novelty through a central mechanism.
(20) In a country addicted to novelty and invention, he was proceeding to supply an instant lore of allegory, myth and fable.