How To Use Fuddy-duddy In A Sentence
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They think I'm an old fuddy-duddy because I don't approve of tattoos.
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We're asserting our youth and funkiness by coming here, because we had plenty of fuddy-duddy pubs to choose from.
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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
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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
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“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
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There were no fuddy-duddy red banners exhorting "harmony.
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“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
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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?
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Can a fine-dining restaurant in Minneapolis succeed if they ignore the all-important fuddy-duddy demographic?
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Although some librarians are thought to be among buyers of the model, others claim it perpetuates a fuddy-duddy stereotype.
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I didn't want to appear like a holier-than-thou fuddy-duddy so I made pleasant small talk with Tonya's date as though I approved of these sort of shenanigans.
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The space almost boasted, "We're different, fresher than all those fuddy-duddy European paintings in the rest of the museum.
American Idyll
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you may accuse me of being and old fuddy-duddy trying to stop young people having fun
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Beatlemania had arrived, and everywhere a gale of self-induced collective hysteria blew away the leaves of fuddy-duddy Britain.
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Beatlemania had arrived, and everywhere a gale of self-induced collective hysteria blew away the leaves of fuddy-duddy Britain.
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At the ripe old age of 32 I'm being written off as a fuddy-duddy.
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At a time when women had an uncertain place in the world and were expected to keep it, and in an age when princesses were supposed to be respected and respectable, Margaret was far too restless to be a fuddy-duddy stay-at-home.
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The GOP will go back to the old plan and nominate someone who is relatively sane, but not too much of a fuddy-duddy or a novice.
Think Progress » Romney Says He Solved Health Crisis ‘At The State Level,’ But Admits ‘The Feds Fund Half Of It’
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Her mum, Nicolette, Marchioness of Londonderry, hired David Hicks to transform this fuddy-duddy estate into an extraordinarily groovy house with an incredible sense of color," the designer marveled.
Monastic Fantastic
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He is, for lack of a better word, a complete fuddy-duddy.
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Words like that are called reduplicates and some of my favorites (found here, scroll down to the bottom) include dilly-dally, fuddy-duddy, higgledy-piggledy, hurly-burly, and namby-pamby.
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To many, groomsmen gifts have been rendered fuddy-duddy.
Groomsmen Gifts: What Gives?
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For one thing, his staid demeanour and the conservatism of his dress and habits might have led one to suppose that he was a fuddy-duddy, set in his ways and hostile to change.
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You can't get a real idea of the noise and the atmosphere, and that's no exaggeration or an old fuddy-duddy thinking that everything was better in the good old days.
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And before the fuddy-duddy brigade rushes to condemn the idea as a recipe for teen troubles, just pause for thought and view the project in terms of business for shop owners.
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Some of the fuddy-duddy rules and regulations perhaps have eased, and we could do with encouraging more youngsters, but we have kept the essence of the game as it always was.
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In the market where these contemporary artists ply their trade, the age-old discipline of drawing human figures is considered a rather fuddy-duddy exercise.
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No doubt you will merely accuse me of being an old fuddy-duddy trying to stop young people having fun.
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The GOP will go back to the old plan and nominate someone who is relatively sane, but not too much of a fuddy-duddy or a novice.
Think Progress » Romney Says He Solved Health Crisis ‘At The State Level,’ But Admits ‘The Feds Fund Half Of It’
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These are the sort of thoughts my grandfather might have had fifty years ago, and he was something of an anachronistic fuddy-duddy even then.
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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.
Publishing’s not as out of it as you think
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Lamenting its loss makes me sound like a fuddy-duddy.
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But to criticize Mr Hall's production as an exercise in fuddy-duddy Shakespeare is beside the point.
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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?
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I'll be the first to admit I'm the originally fuddy-duddy, but there's something about this anime-style, Facebook approach to the periodic table that's remarkably engaging.
"The Periodic Table" and More
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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
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“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
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Perhaps I'm turning into a bit of a fuddy-duddy boring would-rather-stay-at-home kind of guy.
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And to think the fuddy-duddy Yankees still won't put anything but numbers on their backs.
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