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How to use stick-in-the-mud in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word stick-in-the-mud? Here are some examples.

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I'm not a particular fan of outlandish avant-garde food, but this selection was too limited even for an old stick-in-the-mud like me.
But this was Meg, the most stubborn, stick-in-the-mud that Val knew of, and someone who hated any type of fuss being made.
Sometimes I think I'm too much of a stick-in-the-mud for her but we seem to complement each other.
Every conservationist is in danger of being labelled reactionary, a stick-in-the-mud, backward-looking.
I've no doubt he's an old stick-in-the-mud at times, but he's also the head of your chapter.
I'm no stick-in-the-mud, but I like my Easter Eggs chocolate and my hot cross buns fruit-filled and that's that.
Even my Grandma thinks I'm a weirdo stick-in-the-mud but then again she likes to smoke cigars and brew her own beer.
Now call me a stick-in-the-mud, but that sounds like laziness and an open invitation to wheel out every prejudice under the sun.
He is perhaps European film's most celebrated stick-in-the-mud.
Is this exquisite stylist and literary innovator a hopelessly old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud?
Desperate to escape her hometown for the bright lights, she looks on Heather as a stick-in-the-mud, as bad as her boyfriend.
Jomier is a solitary, sour-tempered stick-in-the-mud whose preferred pastime is brooding.
But many stick-in-the-mud doctors continue to dismiss tales of female fountains as poppycock.
So why then, if he is doing all of this, is he criticised almost universally for being a stick-in-the-mud?
Apparently the constitution is just for stick-in-the-mud old white fuddy-duddies.
Kline's Pete is a stick-in-the-mud businessman, but likable in his haplessness.
This isn't meant to sound crusty or stick-in-the-mud.
So much for being a colonial stick-in-the-mud.
Have a little fun sometimes and don't be such a stick-in-the-mud.
Examples from Classical Literature
Everyone got into a sort of stick-in-the-mud mood, and one felt it was only kind to stir them up.
Now that's just the kind of fine old crusted pig-headed Conservativism that's kept this the stick-in-the-mud Country it is!
Jim Langham called him a slow-coach, a tortoise, a stick-in-the-mud, and a few other names.
They're a mangy, stick-in-the-mud, follow-in-the-old-ruts crowd.
Old Stick-in-the-mud does not mean 'going,' that I full well see.
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