Example sentences for: fuddy-duddy

How can you use “fuddy-duddy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Prudie--not young but not a fuddy-duddy, either--couldn't agree with you more.

  • A commentary in the London Independent about Britain's fuddy-duddy Conservative Party and its forlorn attempts at image enhancement observed, "Here they are, doing their best to be a little bit groovy , a little bit New Labour, and what do we do?

  • Granted, I am not young, but I am not a fuddy-duddy either.

  • Among the first group are many children's words-- Georgy-Porgy, Henny-Penny, Turkey-Lurkey, kitchy-kitchy, lippity-lippity, piggly-wiggly . Among the second are fuddy-duddy, funny-money, hoity-toity, hokey-pokey, namby-pamby, shilly-shally, silly-billy, ticky-tacky, wishy-washy , and the double cited above, willy-nilly . The power gained through rhyme and rhythm seems to be directed by the diminutive suffix toward favorable or unfavorable meanings.

  • NR : "It's not going to be fuddy-duddy," insists Mr. Lippincott.


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