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
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.
From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2022
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 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
Peacock But, I don't propose to marry my daughter to some old fuddy-duddy.
From La Tontine by Le Sage, Alain René
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