fuddy-duddy
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And not to be a fuddy-duddy, but I can think of many better uses, including using that desire to connect with people to motivate charity work, political organizing, or just throwing a dinner party.
From Salon • Jan. 19, 2025
Richard Martin says: "It was the 60s, the government wanted to be modern and thrusting, it wanted to get rid of old fuddy-duddy stuff."
From BBC • Jan. 29, 2023
Second comes the flash of unexpected delight — surprise that an old fuddy-duddy cocktail your grandparents drank could taste so good.
From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2022
Dream movie moment: Cora, who sometimes seems a few scones short of a tea tray, wises up and leaves fuddy-duddy Robert for a dashing London financier played by Hugh Grant.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 10, 2019
And now he was like the others in the party—an amiable fuddy-duddy.
From Gargoyles by Hecht, Ben
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