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  • adjective superlative form of stodgy: most stodgy.

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Examples

  • I mean, you know, but the thing is, mainstream media is not a monolith, and there's a continuum that goes from "The National Enquirer," on one hand, to the "NewsHour" on the other, and the "NewsHour" is well known as the stodgiest and most cautious and conservative, not in the political sense, but in the tabloid sense.

    CNN Transcript Aug 17, 2008 2008

  • By now, even the stodgiest companies have found their way onto Twitter.

    Tweeting Without Fear Elizabeth Holmes 2011

  • And instead of following big-name hedge fund or mutual-fund managers, investors were better off parking their money in U.S. government bonds or some of the stodgiest blue-chip companies.

    Dow Ends Year of Tumult Up 6% Jonathan Cheng 2011

  • Mr. Ostrowski, who grew up and studied not far from Bertelsmann's headquarters in Gütersloh, joined Bertelsmann shortly after his studies and climbed up the management ranks in one of its stodgiest divisions: its payment and support services arm, Arvato AG, which he expanded into an international business.

    Bertelsmann Chief Steps Down Vanessa Fuhrmans 2011

  • The scores of assembled guests, numerous luminaries in their own right, crane with curiosity, eager to discover how a plucky Yale graduate once smuggled sex and politics and rock-and-roll past the gates of the nation's stodgiest newspaper muckety-mucks.

    Riffs' Best Books of 2010: Trudeau reflects on 40 years of 'DOONESBURY' Michael Cavna 2010

  • While Summerland's stodgiest citizens tear down these offensive posters, let me review what the rest of the world is doing relative to their vaginas.

    Giles Slade: My Vagina Monologue 2010

  • The scores of assembled guests, numerous luminaries in their own right, crane with curiosity, eager to discover how a plucky Yale graduate once smuggled sex and politics and rock-and-roll past the gates of the nation's stodgiest newspaper muckety-mucks.

    Riffs' Best Books of 2010: Trudeau reflects on 40 years of 'DOONESBURY' Michael Cavna 2010

  • I don't know who you're asking on the street, but when I say that I've written Dune novels, or Star Wars, or Star Trek, or comics, I get a genuinely enthusiastic and interested response even from the stodgiest of mundanes.

    MIND MELD: Science Fiction as a 'Geek' Genre 2008

  • For conservative investors burned by supposedly "safe" investments, the credit crisis and slow-motion market crash hammered home one point: Everything carries some measure of risk, and even the stodgiest-seeming products require scrutiny.

    There's No Such Thing as a 'Safe' Investment 2009

  • The coming of age of this new generation decimated South Korea's stodgiest political party, the United Liberal Democrats.

    The Pyongyang Card 2008

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