stick-in-the-mud

Example Sentences

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Like the husband is super funny and the wife is a stick-in-the-mud.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2022

She arrives where some of internet’s earliest, stick-in-the-mud critics began, championing the worth of the unbroken story of one unique mind as a treasure the collective stream of consciousness can’t replace.

From Slate • Feb. 9, 2021

To Barfield’s credit, Vicky isn’t just a stick-in-the-mud and Erica isn’t always the spontaneous risk-taker.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2017

Even Alice, normally a stick-in-the-mud ingénue, is transformed here into something wild by Ms. Byrne, who makes it clear that the wayward Sycamore genes did not skip a generation.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2014

I have settled down here and gotten to be such a stick-in-the-mud I don’t even like to go out!

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver