stick-in-the-mud

How To Use stick-in-the-mud In A Sentence

• Desperate to escape her hometown for the bright lights, she looks on Heather as a stick-in-the-mud, as bad as her boyfriend.
• “I swear, Oliver, when did you become such a stick-in-the-mud?” How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
• Desperate to escape her hometown for the bright lights, she looks on Heather as a stick-in-the-mud, as bad as her boyfriend.
• I realize I can't take him in for his interview quite yet, so I call and reschedule for later in the afternoon while I try to think of some way to cheer up this stick-in-the-mud of a wet blanket. Greeting Cards From the World's Grumpiest Poet
• So why then, if he is doing all of this, is he criticised almost universally for being a stick-in-the-mud?
• I've no doubt he's an old stick-in-the-mud at times, but he's also the head of your chapter.
• That Mullen further stated he'd served with gays and lesbians since 1968 didn't move the intransigent stick-in-the-mud Republican dogma. John McCain's No Longer a Hero: His Stance on Patriotic Gays is Shameful and Un-American
• He is capable of avuncular charm, wheezy laughter and mischievous wit as well as grizzly ferocity and stick-in-the-mud reactionary attitudes and walking-stick-in-the-hand swashbuckling.
• Apparently the constitution is just for stick-in-the-mud old white fuddy-duddies.
• But it's the stick-in-the-muds who become increasingly irritated and bewildered about everything around them.