How to Use stodgy in a Sentence

stodgy

adjective

• Welcome to 2021, where the stodgy are no match for the stonky.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 9 May 2021
• In all the old movies the ministers’ wives are kind of dowdy and stodgy.
  — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2023
• That was the stodgy New York Times headline one spring day in 1954.
  — New York Times, 7 Apr. 2021
• Of course, in that era Wall Street was mostly a stodgy place.
  — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 7 Aug. 2018
• And its food, far from being stodgy, is first rate too.
  — CNN, 30 July 2021
• The old, stale, stodgy stuff just isn’t worthy of this chicken.
  — Molly Baz, Bon Appétit, 20 Jan. 2020
• Maybe Curry and the Warriors will regress, get stodgy again.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 1 June 2018
• His stodgy shoes pump and move over the pedals at the end of his reliable wool legs.
  — Katherine Dunn, The New Yorker, 4 May 2020
• The Crown season 4 soundtrack is far less stodgy this time around.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 18 Nov. 2020
• Financial firms no longer want to be stodgy and stuffy.
  — Angela Chan, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
• By the 1980s, those performances would look to most as stodgy and dated.
  — Corey Atad, Esquire, 24 July 2017
• Coats that reach close to the ankle are old-fashioned and stodgy looking.
  — Lois Fenton, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2022
• The piece is a pantomime both between the two women and of the stodgy form of a lecture itself.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2023
• But the Castle also has been depicted as stodgy and out of step with the times.
  — chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2020
• On air, the couple broke from the stodgy, sermon-centric format of their peers.
  — Jonathan Merritt, The Atlantic, 24 Sep. 2021
• The caterpillar is always the stodgy, slow-moving thing confined to the ground.
  — Rose Eveleth, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2022
• Lyric Opera presents a stodgy 42-year-old production borrowed from the Met.
  — Deanna Isaacs, Chicago Reader, 6 Feb. 2018
• Their storied rise in the 1980s was cast as villains to the Boston Celtics and drawn in simple strokes: the cool, Black team standing in the path of the stodgy, white one.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022
• To this point the film has been admiring of Margrete to a slightly stodgy degree.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 16 Dec. 2021
• But in many ways, the newspaper had grown stodgy and lost its dominance.
  — Joe Mozingo, latimes.com, 17 June 2018
• The military is old, stodgy, always fighting the last war.
  — M.l. Cavanaugh, WSJ, 16 Apr. 2018
• Anyone who feels the Grammy Awards can be stodgy today might want to consider how far the show has come since the 1990s.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 2 Apr. 2022
• Golfs have been a bit stodgy in their interior tech, and the graphics are a welcome change.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 27 Mar. 2021
• While some gluten is necessary for the structure of many baked goods, too much will yield a dense, stodgy texture.
  — Claire Saffitz, Bon Appétit, 10 Aug. 2023
• An event at the Avant family home wasn’t a stodgy affair with canapes, friends recalled.
  — Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
• In a stodgy industry, Seefried stands out, tall and even a little glamorous.
  — Robb Mandelbaum, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2018
• Yet where his 117-minute film was light as wedding cake, this series sprawls to ten stodgy episodes: not a night out with the girls, but a hen weekend.
  — T.r., The Economist, 12 Aug. 2019
• But otherwise, downtown was a stodgy precinct of banks, law offices and not much else.
  — Campbell Robertson, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2022
• So the sentences sound stiff or stodgy without the pip and punch of quality human writing.
  — Tor Constantino, Mba, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
• By the time the country began to emerge from behind the Iron Curtain in 1989, Czech food had become stodgy and unimaginative.
  — David Farley, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024