fuddy-duddy
Example Sentences
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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
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."
From BBC • Jan. 29, 2023
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
“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
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 Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
