fuddy-duddies

Neophobes—also known as fuddy-duddies—tend to avoid it.

Taking a Novel Approach to Life Eric Felten 2012

Democrats traditionally do well with the youth vote, and one reason is that they have been successful in portraying Republicans as fuddy-duddies who want to hold young people down.

Old Enough to Fight, Old Enough to Drink Glenn Harlan Reynolds 2011

No matter what happens in Wednesday's Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals, you can say this about the last six years in sports: It's been a wonderful ride for purists, history buffs, musty old fogies, moss-grown fuddy-duddies, unapologetic curmudgeons and anyone who has spent the last six decades in a Cryogenic tube.

Score One for the Ghosts of History Mike Sielski and 2011

Now, just imagine if someone came along and said, you know, all these old strictures are just the work of fuddy-duddies, rules imposed by people who don't understand the contemporary bridge-building impulse.

Bridge Building and Sacred Music 2009

In sum and without subtlety, he speaks ill of all journalists and of all newspapers, to the extent that he even misses the fairly civilized old fuddy-duddies like Angelo Rinaldi and Michel

Marie-Laure Delorme: Provocation and Silence in Public Enemies Marie-Laure Delorme 2011

Third, it puts the Democrats in the position of having either to support the end of a federal mandate—something they tend to reflexively oppose—or to look like a bunch of old fuddy-duddies themselves.

Old Enough to Fight, Old Enough to Drink Glenn Harlan Reynolds 2011

No matter what happens in Wednesday's Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals, you can say this about the last six years in sports: It's been a wonderful ride for purists, history buffs, musty old fogies, moss-grown fuddy-duddies, unapologetic curmudgeons and anyone who has spent the last six decades in a Cryogenic tube.

Score One for the Ghosts of History Mike Sielski and 2011

At the risk of aligning myself with the fuddy-duddies on the panel, I'm not convinced that their critics do understand the rigors of the jobs those panelists have.

Old Think from New Publishers 2009

At the risk of aligning myself with the fuddy-duddies on the panel, I'm not convinced that their critics do understand the rigors of the jobs those panelists have.

Archive 2009-04-01 2009

"Now they're the old fuddy-duddies who are trying to keep the status quo."

Want to Bust Some Ghosts? There's an App for That Valerie Bauerlein 2011