fuddy-duddy

How To Use fuddy-duddy In A Sentence

• 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
• To many, groomsmen gifts have been rendered fuddy-duddy. Groomsmen Gifts: What Gives?
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• No doubt you will merely accuse me of being an old fuddy-duddy trying to stop young people having fun.
• 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’
• 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.