fuddy-duddy

How To Use fuddy-duddy In A Sentence

• They think I'm an old fuddy-duddy because I don't approve of tattoos.
• We're asserting our youth and funkiness by coming here, because we had plenty of fuddy-duddy pubs to choose from.
• So the image of the bespectacled fuddy-duddy in his dusty library is a straw man: I would hazard that print publishing experts are actually on the cutting edge of new media. Bookninja
• Meanwhile, Vogue dresses Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in pretty clothes and claims that she could never, ever wear such things in "fuddy-duddy" D.C. Our critic Robin Givhan calls out Vogue (and maybe Gillibrand?), saying there's "nothing career-damaging, gossip-worthy or problematic" by D.C. standards in the senator's fashion-spread clothes, and in fact, plenty of women here dress like that, so get over yourself, New Yorkers. Read this: Katie O'Malley on Kendel Ehrlich, and vice versa; Kirsten Gillibrand's clothes
• “Negro dialect” is a fuddy-duddy term for what some have called Ebonics, Black English, and other things, and it is a real linguistic phenomenon. Matthew Yglesias » Trent Lott Revisited
• There were no fuddy-duddy red banners exhorting "harmony. Tom Doctoroff: What Foreigners Can Learn at the Shanghai Zoo
• “Negro dialect” is a fuddy-duddy term for what some have called Ebonics, Black English, and other things, and it is a real linguistic phenomenon. Matthew Yglesias » Trent Lott Revisited
• Chrysler, in an apparent attempt to shed its fuddy-duddy image after all, they boast about being the originator and ruler of the minivan world, for a buddy-buddy one, tried desperately to show the world they were hip during an overly scripted press conference. 2011 Detroit Auto Show: Will Chrysler wordsmith their way to success?
• Can a fine-dining restaurant in Minneapolis succeed if they ignore the all-important fuddy-duddy demographic?
• Although some librarians are thought to be among buyers of the model, others claim it perpetuates a fuddy-duddy stereotype.