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

Dream movie moment: Cora, who sometimes seems a few scones short of a tea tray, wises up and leaves fuddy-duddy Robert for a dashing London financier played by Hugh Grant.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 10, 2019

But while Mr. Matsubara noted rainbows at a WeWork, an “old fuddy-duddy dress shop” and on Seamless, he was untroubled.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2019

The amiable fuddy-duddy playing little politics in Washington became a gentleman of war.

From Gargoyles by Hecht, Ben