stodgy, adj.
(stodgier, stodgiest)
(stodgier, stodgiest)
excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
stodgy stuffy
sample sentences
"why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?""a stodgy dinner party"
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(used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned
<adj.all> (p)
fogyish moss-grown mossy stick-in-the-mud stodgy
sample sentences
"moss-grown ideas about family life"
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heavy and starchy and hard to digest
<adj.all>
stodgy
sample sentences
"stodgy food""a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full"
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