How To Use Stick-in-the-mud In A Sentence
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Desperate to escape her hometown for the bright lights, she looks on Heather as a stick-in-the-mud, as bad as her boyfriend.
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“I swear, Oliver, when did you become such a stick-in-the-mud?”
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Desperate to escape her hometown for the bright lights, she looks on Heather as a stick-in-the-mud, as bad as her boyfriend.
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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.
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So why then, if he is doing all of this, is he criticised almost universally for being a stick-in-the-mud?
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I've no doubt he's an old stick-in-the-mud at times, but he's also the head of your chapter.
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That Mullen further stated he'd served with gays and lesbians since 1968 didn't move the intransigent stick-in-the-mud Republican dogma.
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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.
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Apparently the constitution is just for stick-in-the-mud old white fuddy-duddies.
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But it's the stick-in-the-muds who become increasingly irritated and bewildered about everything around them.
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She's a polarizing, non-transformational, stick-in-the-mud figure who has a history of making brash, knee-jerk decisions.
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My neighbor is a real stick-in-the-mud, and he's only thirty-two.
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Every conservationist is in danger of being labelled reactionary, a stick-in-the-mud, backward-looking.
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Which just proves I can be a real stick-in-the-mud type of guy, I guess.
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So, if you prefer to be an old stick-in-the-mud, just remember that your devotion to a few financial suppliers is costing you the best part of £3,000 every year.
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Come to think of it, both men are low-income stick-in-the-muds, hamstrung by past women, unable to escape dark, stifling homes, and psychologically unstable.
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I don't want to become an old stick-in-the-mud.
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It is the kind of move that makes most London orchestras look like stick-in-the-muds, adrift in the thinking of the last century.
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I may be a softie and a sappy old romantic, but after hearing that, only a heartless stick-in-the-mud would think hubby Rick is a big fat jerk without a shred of sensitivity!
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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.
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He is perhaps European film's most celebrated stick-in-the-mud.
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Every conservationist is in danger of being labelled reactionary, a stick-in-the-mud, backward-looking.
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And then there are the old stick-in-the-muds who come up with the most interesting objections to having their course info online.
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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.
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The truly sad thing is the reaction of all you stick-in-the-mud drones who think Governor Sanford has, somehow, done something wrong.
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But is this a bolshie minority of stick-in-the-muds who don't like change?
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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.
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Sometimes I think I'm too much of a stick-in-the-mud for her but we seem to complement each other.
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The French stick-in-the-muds were pummeled by English archers.
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Now call me a stick-in-the-mud, but that sounds like laziness and an open invitation to wheel out every prejudice under the sun.
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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.
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So why then, if he is doing all of this, is he criticised almost universally for being a stick-in-the-mud?
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Even now, you shouldn't be a stick-in-the-mud.
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I'm not a particular fan of outlandish avant-garde food, but this selection was too limited even for an old stick-in-the-mud like me.
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And a recent poll showed that 65% of people in stick-in-the-mud Greece want civil servants to lose their job security.
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I'm no stick-in-the-mud, but I like my Easter Eggs chocolate and my hot cross buns fruit-filled and that's that.
