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

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

The Senate — an institution that tends to boast of its stodginess — never really entered the 21st century.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2020

But it is this very stodginess that makes it, if you love Wordsworth, the perfect book where there can be only one.

From The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen by Arnim, Elizabeth von