Words similar to fuddy-duddy

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:

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?
Prudie--not young but not a fuddy-duddy, either--couldn't agree with you more.
Beatty's politics might be those of a hipster, but his aesthetics since Shampoo (1975) have been those of a fuddy-duddy.
NR : "It's not going to be fuddy-duddy," insists Mr. Lippincott.
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.