Adjective, : a stodgy Victorian novel. ,a stodgy old gentleman. ,a stodgy business suit. From Dictionary.com.
Damien Martyn played solidly and Jason Gillespie defended stodgily. From Wordnik.com. [Cricket: 2nd Test. End of 4th Day's Play.] Reference
A smart grammatical turn in the final lines of "Bread and Blood" gives what could be stodgily polemical an extra edge. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference
'Society,' in the most stodgily colonial, British sense of the word, is predicated on impenetrable, inherited exclusion. From Wordnik.com. [Lesley M. M. Blume: Putting On Airs] Reference
You know very well that no couple, whether newly smitten and starry-eyed or stodgily married for forty years, will talk this way. From Wordnik.com. [Joan Z. Shore: Where Has All the Passion Gone?] Reference
Probably less than twenty percent of its clientele consisted of couples looking for a few hours of discreet bliss, and the place looked too stodgily middle-class to attract a druggy element. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
Some accept these extensions of the olive branch and the many social advantages that they entail, whilst others stodgily reject them and hold true to their beliefs that their clubs are infinitely superior. From Wordnik.com. [Jamie Johnson: The "Diversity" of Wasp Clubs: Jamie Johnson] Reference
And while the Times is stubbornly and stodgily manning the gates of the fancy Midtown office building it can't afford, the ever approachable Huffington Post is churning out content and swimming in advertising dollars in its small nondescript workspace downtown. From Wordnik.com. [Michelle Haimoff: The World of Free and The Huffington Post] Reference
This heavy, cut glass number from the stodgily-named. From Wordnik.com. [Damn Hell Ass Kings] Reference
There he would lunch and dine stodgily in musty state. From Wordnik.com. [The Rough Road] Reference
The liner, meanwhile, continued to move stodgily out into mid-river. From Wordnik.com. [Three Men and a Maid] Reference
Also it was boring to see how stodgily George Vanneck was in love with. From Wordnik.com. [The Heather-Moon] Reference
His mouth opened and he gazed stodgily, his widening eyes like sun-dogs coming out of a fog. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Canaan] Reference
The rest of her hearers sat heavily, stodgily in their seats without moving a muscle, mental, emotional, or physical. From Wordnik.com. [Ladies-In-Waiting] Reference
They seem all to have been marrying men, some of them super-romantical, others as stodgily domestic and workaday as any village blacksmith. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2] Reference
For fifteen minutes I have watched an Atta in this predicament, stodgily endeavoring to lift his leaf while standing on it at the same time. From Wordnik.com. [Edge of the Jungle] Reference
Then in passing rapidly over the score afterwards we shall see at a glance the structure of the whole, and how the new thematic matter is either welded into this sea music or stodgily interpolated. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Wagner Composer of Operas] Reference
And the newly-elected lawmakers, fresh from casting their first series of votes and receiving word of their first committee assignments, were careful to say that their "caucus" isn't the stodgily formal assembly that the. From Wordnik.com. [msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines] Reference
Times is stubbornly and stodgily manning the gates of the fancy Midtown office building it can't afford, the ever approachable Huffington Post is churning out content and swimming in advertising dollars in its small nondescript workspace downtown. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
"Because when it happens, if it does, I may be so stodgily respectable you'll be very glad to ask me to dinner, you know. From Wordnik.com. [Young People's Pride] Reference
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