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stick-in-the-mud

ADJECTIVE
  1. (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned
    moss-grown ideas about family life
NOUN
  1. 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
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