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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