stodginess

Example Sentences

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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 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

That a bodysuit seems so revolutionary on a tennis court is a testament to the stodginess of the sport and the judginess of its observers.

From Slate • May 31, 2018

It takes a truly terrible proposal to elicit such eloquent unanimity from organizations that are usually cautious to the point of stodginess.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 25, 2017

In literature we have stodginess in style and decadence in morals, and vers libre, that is to say, no verse at all.

From Your Negro Neighbor by Brawley, Benjamin Griffith