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Feelings of which, at sixty-odd, I felt ashamed.

What is sixty-odd?
 

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Feelings of which, at sixty-odd, I felt ashamed.

What is sixty-odd?

It means that the speaker is in his sixties (ie his age falls somewhere between 60 and 69). When people don't want to use a specific age, or don't want to say exactly how old they are, they use this kind of phrase.

How old are you?
Oh, forty-odd!

We also say "forty-something".
 
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