fuddy-duddy
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And not to be a fuddy-duddy, but I can think of many better uses, including using that desire to connect with people to motivate charity work, political organizing, or just throwing a dinner party.
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2025
Showing the BBC around his former stomping ground, Harold's Café, he expressed confidence his cardigan-wearing "fuddy-duddy" character would live on.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2022
“She’s always very smartly turned out but appropriate for her age. Not so fuddy-duddy as she used to be.’
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 16, 2022
She designed the spirit to pique curiosity of younger drinkers who think of genever as too fuddy-duddy, she told me.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2021
You can lead your class all you want to with your silk-lined manners and your fuddy-duddy book-talk!
From The White Linen Nurse by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
We tend to think of people from long ago as credulous, unsophisticated fuddy-duddies.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2021
In the Spiel, why the Dow is for fuddy-duddies.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2017
Even more startling, some of the fuddy-duddies in traditional media turn out to have a bigger millennial audience than Vice — including, uh, The New York Times, Mr. McDermott said..
From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2014
English Heritage objected, but who cared about the complaints of culturally conservative fuddy-duddies?
From The Guardian ● Aug. 19, 2011
He talks William the Conqueror and all those old fuddy-duddies by the yard, but he can't make me see the use of them, and you can't.
From Three Margarets by Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze) Barry
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