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 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

If she gave the whole village work, was it too far gone in its unspurred stodginess to be roused to carrying it out?

From The Shuttle by Burnett, Frances Hodgson