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

I don’t miss the stodginess that defined a lot of news writing when I got into the business three and a half decades ago.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 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

When English society was respectable, even to stodginess at times," was his point of view, "to be born 'the Head of the House' was a weighty and awe-inspiring thing.

From The Head of the House of Coombe by Burnett, Frances Hodgson