fuddy-duddy

"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.

Monastic Fantastic Jen Renzi 2011

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 2010

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

Groomsmen Gifts: What Gives? Steve Garbarino 2011

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

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

Tom Doctoroff: What Foreigners Can Learn at the Shanghai Zoo Tom Doctoroff 2011

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

Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2012

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

The clue's in Twitter's name for this footballers' tweets refusenik | Anna Kessel 2011

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

American Idyll Ralph Gardner Jr. 2012

“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

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

Tom Doctoroff: What Foreigners Can Learn at the Shanghai Zoo Tom Doctoroff 2011