fuddy-duddy

• “The space almost boasted, "We're different, fresher than all those fuddy-duddy European paintings in the rest of the museum.”

  The Wall Street Journal: American Idyll

• “At the ripe old age of 32 I'm being written off as a fuddy-duddy.”

  The Guardian: The clue's in Twitter's name for this footballers' tweets refusenik | Anna Kessel

• ““Negro dialect” is a fuddy-duddy term for what some have called Ebonics, Black English, and other things, and it is a real linguistic phenomenon.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Trent Lott Revisited

• “And to think the fuddy-duddy Yankees still won't put anything but numbers on their backs.”

  The Huffington Post: Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories

• “To many, groomsmen gifts have been rendered fuddy-duddy.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Groomsmen Gifts: What Gives?

• “There were no fuddy-duddy red banners exhorting "harmony.”

  The Huffington Post: Tom Doctoroff: What Foreigners Can Learn at the Shanghai Zoo

• “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’

• “Her mum, Nicolette, Marchioness of Londonderry, hired David Hicks to transform this fuddy-duddy estate into an extraordinarily groovy house with an incredible sense of color," the designer marveled.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Monastic Fantastic

• “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

• “Chrysler, in an apparent attempt to shed its fuddy-duddy image after all, they boast about being the originator and ruler of the minivan world, for a buddy-buddy one, tried desperately to show the world they were hip during an overly scripted press conference.”

  Consumer Reports: 2011 Detroit Auto Show: Will Chrysler wordsmith their way to success?

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