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

But the stodginess reveals how much soul-searching it must have taken to write this candid, reflective book.

From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2018

He looked round the ring of faces, and translated their stodginess as self-consciousness dictated.

From Gone to Earth by Webb, Mary Gladys Meredith