Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character of being stodgy; heaviness; dullness; crudeness.

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  • noun The state or quality of being stodgy.

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  • noun dull and pompous gravity

Etymologies

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From stodgy +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • What I would have called their "stodginess" or "ordinariness" he called "Homeliness" - a key word in his imagination.

    Surprised by Joy Lewis, C. S. 1955

  • There's a kind of stodginess that's associated with that - like accountant offices or lawyers - that we didn't necessarily want to be a part of.

    NYT > Home Page By ROBIN POGREBIN 2010

  • Leave behind the stodginess of the Prado, the Louvre and the Met and begin an international treasure hunt for the world's finest art.

    Black Tomato: Inventive and Out of the Way Museums [PHOTOS] Black Tomato 2011

  • This is exactly the demographic GM—and Buick specifically—needs to cultivate to escape the taint of middle-age stodginess that had enveloped the brand.

    Why Are General Motors Shares Stuck in Reverse? James B. Stewart 2011

  • Her other fear was about the series' procedural structure and the stodginess that usually comes with that.

    On The Set: Celebrating NCIS' 200th Episode 2012

  • In 2003 Clive Woodward's World Cup winners were heavily criticised for the stodginess of their play all the way to the moment of victory, and four years later there were similar concerns when England emerged from their pool despite conceding 36 unanswered points to the Springboks and reached the final without persuading observers to apply superlatives to anything other than the unlikeliness of their revival.

    Why the world loves to hate England's rugby | Richard Williams 2011

  • Leave behind the stodginess of the Prado, the Louvre and the Met and begin an international treasure hunt for the world's finest art.

    Black Tomato: Inventive and Out of the Way Museums [PHOTOS] Black Tomato 2011

  • The other traipsed out bemoaning the deadening effect of Wembley and the stodginess of their midfield.

    Gareth Bale's zip for Wales reminds England what they are missing | Paul Hayward 2011

  • Indeed, it will hold up its stodginess as a virtue.

    Canada: Land of the Free 2010

  • The academic stodginess of the leukemia consortium—its insistence on progressively and systematically testing one drug combination after another—was now driving Freireich progressively and systematically mad.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

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