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
He is shown celebrating a home run against the Marlins in a new M.L.B. television ad, called “Let the Kids Play,” that pushes back against the perceived stodginess of the game.
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2018
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 Frances Hodgson Burnett
