Examples of stick-in-the-mud in a Sentence
the committee is dominated by old stick-in-the-muds who have little interest in bringing new ideas to the table
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David Corenswet plays, quite literally, a stick-in-the-mud character.
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Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
In the Herbert Ross film, Bacon played big-city teen Ren McCormack, who moves to the small town of Bomont, where its stick-in-the-mud local minster, the Rev. Shaw Moore (John Lithgow), has instituted a ban on dancing.
—EW.com, 9 Nov. 2023
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Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
In the Herbert Ross film, Bacon played big-city teen Ren McCormack, who moves to the small town of Bomont, where its stick-in-the-mud local minster, the Rev. Shaw Moore (John Lithgow), has instituted a ban on dancing.
—EW.com, 9 Nov. 2023
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“Stick-in-the-mud.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stick-in-the-mud. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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