ossified

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Like every other detail here, that implicit complaint is dusty and ossified, and Mr. Williamson’s formerly wised-up dialogue has been supplanted by a grinding earnestness, with everyone constantly asking about one another’s feelings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

Nor can you, apparently, be a successful, divorced, outspoken biracial American career woman and thrive among the hierarchically ossified, stiff-upper-lip royal family.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2023

Ironize forms — such as the oral history or the rockumentary — that have ossified?

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023

Since then, the sprawling content business that the New York Times Book Review mystery columnist Sarah Weinman has called the true-crime industrial complex has matured and ossified.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2023

All past oligarchies have fallen from power either because they ossified or because they grew soft.

From "1984" by George Orwell