ADJECTIVE
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(used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned
moss-grown ideas about family life
NOUN
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someone who moves slowly
in England they call a slowpoke a slowcoach
How To Use stick-in-the-mud In A Sentence
- Sometimes I think I'm too much of a stick-in-the-mud for her but we seem to complement each other.
- He is perhaps European film's most celebrated stick-in-the-mud.
- Every conservationist is in danger of being labelled reactionary, a stick-in-the-mud, backward-looking.
- And then there are the old stick-in-the-muds who come up with the most interesting objections to having their course info online.
- Even my Grandma thinks I'm a weirdo stick-in-the-mud but then again she likes to smoke cigars and brew her own beer.
- Desperate to escape her hometown for the bright lights, she looks on Heather as a stick-in-the-mud, as bad as her boyfriend.
- The truly sad thing is the reaction of all you stick-in-the-mud drones who think Governor Sanford has, somehow, done something wrong. Sanford says he was in Argentina, not on Appalachian Trail
- But is this a bolshie minority of stick-in-the-muds who don't like change?
- But this was Meg, the most stubborn, stick-in-the-mud that Val knew of, and someone who hated any type of fuss being made.
- Standout scene: Andrew's mother (Mary Steenburgen) and frisky, 90-year-old "Gammy Annie" (Betty White) drag stick-in-the-mud Margaret to a bar for a makeshift bachelorette party. Non-explosive entertainment can be just as enjoyable