Stodgy (Adjective)
Meaning 1
Excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull; "why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?"; "a stodgy dinner party".
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Meaning 2
Heavy and starchy and hard to digest; "stodgy food"; "a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full".
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Meaning 3
(used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned; "moss-grown ideas about family life".
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Examples
- The traditional British university was often seen as stodgy and out of touch with modern society.
- Her parents had stodgy ideas about marriage and insisted that she marry a man with a good job.
- The old professor's stodgy views on education were met with skepticism by his students.
- The stodgy bureaucracy of the government agency made it difficult to implement new policies.
- The hotel's stodgy decor, complete with floral patterns and velvet drapes, was in desperate need of an update.