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Meanings of stodgy in English

(Used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned.

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Excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull.

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Stodgy.

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Usage of stodgy in English
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The London club's approach has been too stodgy to date, after all.
The Guardian
2
However, he moves from the flee-flowing Warriors to the stodgy, forward-based Sharks.
News.com.au
3
They bore no resemblance to the stodgy side seen at the Velodrome.
The Irish Times
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The stodgy old man answer is no, it is not a need.
Wired
5
He might call me various unflattering things, but not stodgy-notwith truth.
The Firefly of France
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Like the stodgy space and auto industries, boring seems ripe for revolution.
Wired
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The company's stodgy board also could use greater independence and diversity.
Reuters
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A typical stodgy Victorian family - three brothers and three sisters.
The new yorker
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But our foggy English climate and stodgy people call for it.
The Cruise of the Dry Dock
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If the daytime feels a little too stodgy, look to the later hours.
The South African
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For all the homage paid to Dumas, the plot is stodgy and repetitive.
The Guardian
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The tourists have bowled and fielded well but England have been typically stodgy.
The Guardian
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Beyond the balance sheet, she turned the stodgy SBI into a digital-savvy institution.
Reuters
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Best of all, APS is not so big that it has become stodgy.
Wired
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It's better than stodgy sense: literature is blocked up with that.
Paul Kelver
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A band plays in a corner- acovercombo specializing in stodgy classic rock.
Up in the air
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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