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I am no fuddy duddy but I am embarrassed by my wife's behavior.

Barbara Greenberg: The Problem With Dressing Like Your Teen Barbara Greenberg 2012

I am no fuddy duddy but I am embarrassed by my wife's behavior.

Barbara Greenberg: The Problem With Dressing Like Your Teen Barbara Greenberg 2012

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’ 2010

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

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.

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

Meanwhile, Vogue dresses Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in pretty clothes and claims that she could never, ever wear such things in "fuddy-duddy" D.C. Our critic Robin Givhan calls out Vogue (and maybe Gillibrand?), saying there's "nothing career-damaging, gossip-worthy or problematic" by D.C. standards in the senator's fashion-spread clothes, and in fact, plenty of women here dress like that, so get over yourself, New Yorkers.

Read this: Katie O'Malley on Kendel Ehrlich, and vice versa; Kirsten Gillibrand's clothes The Reliable Source 2010

London and Paris perhaps - fuddy duddy DC, um not so much.

Men's Formal Wear - dfi 2009

He probably considers me an old fuddy duddy because I have my basic TMobile plan from 7 years ago (19.95) and 60 minutes free per month.

I just called to say, "I'm on welfare" (Jack Bog's Blog) 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

“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 2010