Aged
Aged adjective - Being of advanced years and especially past middle age.
Usage example: all the young men went to fight in the war; and only the aged and infirm remained behind
Nearby Word: age
Minor
Minor adjective - Having not so great importance or rank as another.
Both words in one sentence
- Similarly, Cougar Town stopped being about middle-aged women chasing younger men (with the exception of one minor recurring character) after the first few episodes.
- When the entire family reveals to matriarch Annie that they won't be home for Thanksgiving, she announces, "You are not my family"—her minor-aged children included, no less.
Source: I Have No Son / Live-Action TV - A year before Matlock debuted, Griffith played Judge Julius Sullivan, a callously cruel judge who sentences two teen-aged girls to prison for a minor crime.
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