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Meanings of stodgy in inglés
(Used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned.
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Examples for "mossy"
Examples for "mossy"
1
Damp and mildew had left large mossy areas on their veranda floor.
2
The ashes of the dead had been strewn upon the mossy plains.
3
A girl sat on the mossy river-bank in the dappled, golden sunlight.
4
The trunks of the old trees were big and rough and mossy.
5
From the heart of the agate the mossy landscape comes dreaming out.
1
But his scheme received no encouragement from the old-fogyish authorities.
2
Why, Jenny, I hae heard that Robert Leslie once spoke o' the house o' John Callendar & Co. as 'old fogyish!'
1
It breeds about Derali, Bairamghati, and Gangaotri, in the large moss-grown deodars.
2
The stream was perhaps eight feet across, spanned by a moss-grown footbridge.
3
I have a nice garden but it is untidy, moss-grown- adilettantegarden.
4
Soon he was gliding along the sides of the moss-grown walls.
5
On the two moss-grown pillars, reposed the well known crest of his family.
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But what do those stick-in-the-mud, living people know about modern convenience, huh?
2
Oh, you are getting to be an old man, you stick-in-the-mud.
3
Even stick-in-the-mud lawyer Portia Bellefleur was peeking around her conservative beau to study Mickey.
4
I was once a stick-in-the-mud Halloween refusenik.
5
Naomi and Ginny exchanged the sort of glances which culinary sophisticates exchange in the presence of stick-in-the-mud louts.
Usage of stodgy in inglés
1
The London club's approach has been too stodgy to date, after all.
2
However, he moves from the flee-flowing Warriors to the stodgy, forward-based Sharks.
3
They bore no resemblance to the stodgy side seen at the Velodrome.
4
The stodgy old man answer is no, it is not a need.
5
He might call me various unflattering things, but not stodgy-notwith truth.
6
Like the stodgy space and auto industries, boring seems ripe for revolution.
7
The company's stodgy board also could use greater independence and diversity.
8
A typical stodgy Victorian family - three brothers and three sisters.
9
But our foggy English climate and stodgy people call for it.
10
If the daytime feels a little too stodgy, look to the later hours.
11
For all the homage paid to Dumas, the plot is stodgy and repetitive.
12
The tourists have bowled and fielded well but England have been typically stodgy.
13
Beyond the balance sheet, she turned the stodgy SBI into a digital-savvy institution.
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Best of all, APS is not so big that it has become stodgy.
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It's better than stodgy sense: literature is blocked up with that.
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A band plays in a corner- acovercombo specializing in stodgy classic rock.
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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