stodginess
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 supporting performers kept the evening from slipping too far into stodginess.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2021
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
His theatre is beginning to pander to foreign tastes, to be ashamed of itself, to take on respectability and stodginess.
From Rosinante to the Road Again by John Dos Passos
