stodgy
adjective
heavy, dull, or uninteresting; tediously commonplace; boring.
stodginess
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a word derived from
stodgy.
Example Sentences
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The name is tongue-in-cheek, but investors haven’t had patience for actual stodginess lately.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
Letterman’s offbeat, sardonic brand of humor also gave a layer of hipness to CBS, which had long had a reputation for stodginess.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025
The creativity of this style of quizzing, I’m convinced, is also a reaction to the stodginess that infects Indian education.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 28, 2020
The Senate — an institution that tends to boast of its stodginess — never really entered the 21st century.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2020
But it is this very stodginess that makes it, if you love Wordsworth, the perfect book where there can be only one.
From The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen by Elizabeth von Arnim
