stodgy

IPA: stˈɑdʒi

adjective

  • (of food) Having a thick, semi-solid consistency; glutinous; heavy on the stomach.
  • (figurative) Dull, old-fashioned.
  • (dated) Badly put together.
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Examples of "stodgy" in Sentences

  • Otherwise I'd go back to using stodgy form.
  • Wikipedia is not a stodgy museum of languages.
  • I'm not saying that it has to be stodgy or old.
  • I'm not saying that it has to be stodgy or nothing.
  • Indeed, who cares about his stodgy old philosophy anyway
  • Article suffers from stodgy flow and some grammatical errors.
  • Also to your point, some of the language sounds rather stodgy.
  • Science is stodgy, typically not glamorous, and entails hard work.
  • This series is not the place for safe, sober, and stodgy presentations.
  • "You can find great opportunities in stodgy old-fashioned blue-chip stocks."
  • We don't have to be stodgy, but we're really not trying to be playful either.
  • It is a known quantity, even if it was known as a stodgy company for a while.
  • But now, fully entrenched in stodgy-hearted adulthood, I'm more inclined toward The Power of More-Than-One, especially when the goal is to make a significant difference.
  • At all times reverent to more than twenty years of Mario platforming, NSMB Wii never feels tired, repetitive or stodgy, which is something of an achievement unto itself.
  • It is by no accident that the British -- whom foreigners delight to call stodgy and slow-witted, -- have produced more high-class poetry than any other nation in the history of the world.
  • He could eat, really eat, if it was part of a game, but he could not stodge just to feel stodgy, which is what most children like better than anything else; the next best thing being to talk about it.
  • I know I was one, but I suspect that I have grown into the kind of stodgy adult who is going to have a real problem with crackly voices, "fur, where there was no fur before" and any kind of freak-outs that involve violation, destruction of premises or partial nudity.

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