stick-in-the-mud

Example Sentences

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Like the husband is super funny and the wife is a stick-in-the-mud.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2022

There are some memorable supporting performances — notably from Bashir Salahuddin, Monica Barbaro and the always solid Jon Hamm, as a by-the-book, stick-in-the-mud admiral — but the world they inhabit is textureless and generic.

From New York Times • May 26, 2022

She arrives where some of internet’s earliest, stick-in-the-mud critics began, championing the worth of the unbroken story of one unique mind as a treasure the collective stream of consciousness can’t replace.

From Slate • Feb. 9, 2021

Did you feel like you were playing a feminist stick-in-the-mud?

From The New Yorker • Feb. 17, 2019

I have settled down here and gotten to be such a stick-in-the-mud I don’t even like to go out!

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver