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Stodgy

adjective

Heavy and starchy and hard to digest. "A stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full"

(used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned. Synonyms: fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud.

Excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull. Synonym: stuffy. "A stodgy dinner party"

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"Stodgy" Quotes from Famous Books

... admiration. The Stars and Stripes almost instantaneously broke out on private dwellings, shops, hotels, and theatres; street hucksters did a thriving business selling rosettes of the American colours, which even the most stodgy Englishmen did not disdain to wear in their buttonholes; wherever there was a band or an orchestra, the Star Spangled Banner acquired a sudden popularity; and the day even came when the American and the British flags flew side by side over the Houses of Parliament—the ...

— The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II • Burton J. Hendrick

... sensed some other presence in the ship, someone besides the pilot and his mechanics up ahead, the hostess and the three stodgy traveling men who were ...

— Empire • Clifford Donald Simak

... civilization, friends, a reddish Juggernaut, you know, whose wheels cease not: so we should be prying into it, provided we be not now too hide-bound: for that's the trouble—that our thoughts grow to revolve in stodgy grooves of use-and-wont, and shun to soar beyond. Look at our Parliament—a hurdy-gurdy turning out, age after age, a sing-song of pigmy regulations, accompanied for grum kettledrum by a musketry of suicides, and for pibroch by ...

— The Lord of the Sea • M. P. Shiel

... reserve, and hastily switched the conversation to the more prosaic topic of cupboards. The very sound of a balcony bristles with romance, but cupboards may be discussed with safety under the most lacerating circumstances. There is something comfortably safe and stodgy about them. And Pastimes was so rich in this respect that we spent a happy half-hour appointing their future uses, and jotting ...

— The Lady of the Basement Flat • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... I—took No. —— Lower Seedley Road, no possibility of the place being haunted crossed our minds. Indeed ghosts were the very last things we reckoned on, as neither of us had the slightest belief in them. Like the generality of solicitors, I am stodgy and unimaginative, whilst my wife is the most practical and matter-of-fact little woman you would meet in a day's march. Nor was there anything about the house that in any way suggested the superphysical. It was airy and light—no dark corners nor sinister ...

— Animal Ghosts - Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter • Elliott O'Donnell

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