A person perceived as contemptible or pathetically inadequate.
〈英,非正式〉土老帽,守旧派
girly mags were for middle-aged saddos, not for right-on young men
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The last thing I want is to spend my new year reading interviews with these limelight-seeking saddos.
A more useless, empty-headed crowd of saddos I've seldom if ever met.
It is punctuated with ‘is it’ and ‘innit’, uses ‘te’ for ‘to’ and ‘him’ for ‘he’ and a whole bunch of street slang words that older, non-street saddos like me have to work out by way of context.
They'd all think I was a saddo trainspotter, which is not the image I want to convey.
Yeah, it's so easy to mock something just because you think other people will and you want to get in first in case someone thinks you're a saddo.
I may be a saddo living in the past, but as my father, an archaeologist, always said, the future is unknown, the present is a mere split second, we really only have the past to look at.
When the usually grey-haired bad-boy actor Billy Bob Thornton took his bad dye job for a night out in LA, he was labelled a saddo because a man with obviously coloured hair is regarded with suspicion and amusement.
Now, to those people who thought that there was something to gossip about, and also the saddos who insist on communicating via the search function - GET A GRIP!
Never mind the content of their remarks, even fellow Conservatives saw them as saddos in extra-thick anoraks.
Either I'm the biggest saddo ever to stalk the shops, or I'm the evolutionary peak of bargain hunting perfection.
Imagine our surprise when we come back - having been forced to make do with filled croissants, salads and scones - to find two of said worthy saddos sitting in our seats.
It seems more likely that such saddos need help rather than jail sentences.
He's definitely a saddo, prone to self-pity and playing drippy ballads on his guitar.
Pity the poor person who wanted to take a ride through their neighbourhood - some smelly no-friends saddos had got there first.
So could there be any possible link between being a saddo and/or programming computers (which, let's admit it, are not too far apart) and believing in God?
There is a whole industry catering for old saddos who get the shakes if they don't have their daily fix of a sherbet dib-dab.
Which other saddos are watching the live coverage?
I wholly congratulate these girls for finding a way to get lots of free stuff from online saddos without revealing any personal information.
Maybe the saddos that keep coming here searching for ‘Jessica Lynch + Playboy’ should read this.