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US
/ˈstɑdʒi/
]
[ UK /stˈɒdʒi/ ]
[ UK /stˈɒdʒi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
a stodgy dinner party
why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor? -
(used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned
moss-grown ideas about family life -
heavy and starchy and hard to digest
a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full
stodgy food
How To Use stodgy In A Sentence
- Only the sizzling Mongolian lamb hotpot, mayo-slaughtered wasabi prawns, the stodgy dumplings and leaden-battered soft-shell crab were truly terrible.
- No wonder her work is cutting through the stale, stodgy world of Scottish desserts like a red hot knife through a wodge of sticky toffee pudding.
- I know that the kids lap up every last bit of detail, and they are the prime readership after all, but for me it's a rather stodgy and tedious read.
- I would suggest replacing the breadcrumbs with rice or couscous, which are less stodgy, and again varies the grain away from bread.
- Its realism is a bit stodgy; its flights into fantasy are familiar. Times, Sunday Times
- Otherwise, it's a great track that, even despite the film's 3-hour running time, never becomes stodgy or boring.
- It's been a stodgy, indigestible day, rather like a failed suet pastry.
- Why is the middle class so stodgy , so utterly without a sense of humor?
- O'Brien's stodgy, arrhythmic prose never brings its subject to life.
- Instead of arborio rice, which tends to be stodgy, use vialone nano (a lighter texture, good for seafood) or carnaroli (more substantial and creamy, great for meat-based risottos). Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
