fuddy-duddy

He posted it to show voters he isn’t “an old fuddy-duddy,” he said.

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.

Richard Martin says: "It was the 60s, the government wanted to be modern and thrusting, it wanted to get rid of old fuddy-duddy stuff."

Few Britons now recoil at the prospect of King Charles III, even if he sometimes seems more a fuddy-duddy uncle than a national patriarch.

“She’s always very smartly turned out but appropriate for her age. Not so fuddy-duddy as she used to be.’