stodgy food.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

"You can find great opportunities in stodgy old-fashioned blue-chip stocks.".    From Wordnik.com.  [How should you invest in a bad economy? Stocks? Bonds?] Reference

It is a known quantity, even if it was known as a stodgy company for a while.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Corporate Friends] Reference

At the same time, Ms. Isono says, the hotel is aiming to appeal to a younger market and avoid a "stodgy" feel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Downhill on Nob Hill] Reference

Ivan is on a mission to dispel its 'stodgy' image.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

There was nothing so "stodgy" as children in the vision.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Head of the House of Coombe] Reference

Originally I had the idea that PCLOS is kind of stodgy (2007, for goodness 'sake!!) but that isn't true.    From Wordnik.com.  [PCLinuxOS-Forums] Reference

Mutual funds have a rep for being stodgy but safe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mayhem In Mutual Funds] Reference

This most stodgy of sports now embraces digital technology.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Diamond Goes Digital] Reference

No longer must chandeliers be stodgy, showy or crystal-studded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leading Lights] Reference

And this is when those old stodgy Monopoly rules go out the window.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monopoly Game: Rules Made To Be Broken?] Reference

No longer are chandeliers necessarily stodgy, showy and crystal-studded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Growing Lights] Reference

Our typical image of a reviewer is that of a stodgy, curmudgeony obscurantist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ron Charles, book reviewer -- and hip as hell] Reference

But the stodgy telecom industry has awakened to the problem, and help is on the way.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Mobile Phones Aren't Really Mobile] Reference

That bravado could melt away once he's in front of a stodgy crowd, smothered by a tuxedo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Late Bloomer] Reference

So it makes sense that the stodgy federal government has entered the world of social media.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission ventures into social media] Reference

But stodgy, defensive football culminating in shoot-outs hasn't proved a championship formula.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Spotlight] Reference

And forget stodgy T shirts: how about a temporary tattoo with a pro-choice message in Chinese?.    From Wordnik.com.  [GENERATION AMBIVALENT] Reference

For the past 2 -, 4 -, 5 - and 10-year periods, the stodgy old Dow has outperformed the Nasdaq.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't Wait Up For The Party] Reference

He's president of the stodgy European Commission, the citadel of rules, red tape and "Eurocracy.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Opposites Attract] Reference

Koizumi has long been considered a very "cool" politician, especially by Japan's stodgy standards.    From Wordnik.com.  [A LONG, HOT SUMMER] Reference

This year Wilson has removed the earrings and eyebrow rings that might cost him with stodgy judges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who To Watch] Reference

The problem lies with the stodgy cold-war thinkers at the Pentagon, who should have retired long ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to the Magazine] Reference

However, I think they need to rethink the GUI and the menu structure, which look quite stodgy and old.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leica’s ritzy compact digital camera: the X1] Reference

But the bigger problem is that despite efforts to patch over gaps in the system, the Grammys remain stodgy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shammy Grammys] Reference

Once a stodgy chemical concern, Monsanto is now leading a corporate stampede into the biotech-food industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [High-Tech Harvests] Reference

The Accord became more substantial and stodgy, and remained the No. 1 or No. 2 seller for the past 10 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Honda's Midlife Makeover] Reference

The "deviant lifestyles" detailed in Dr. Tatiana's fictional column by far eclipse anything we stodgy humans do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

A certain stodgy reader we know picked up Jacqueline Carey's "Good Gossip" and didn't come up for air until page 157.    From Wordnik.com.  [Start Speading The News] Reference

Changing the stodgy image of the environmental movement is at the heart of what many young activists are trying to do.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's Hip to Be Green] Reference

McMahon says he started the league because the NFL's brand of football has lost its edge: it's too slow and too stodgy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not Your Father's Nfl] Reference

Come 2001, no fewer than 2,294 U.S. products and 1,932 companies could find themselves saddled with suddenly stodgy names.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's In A Name? Ask A Marketing Pro] Reference

Tossing out words like 'heirloom' and 'collectible' is one thing, but stodgy and outdated items is something else altogether.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fashion History With A Twist: The World's Most Enduring Brands] Reference

She had just begun the toughest job of her life, transforming Bazaar from a stodgy has-been into a beautifully designed modern voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman Of Substance] Reference

His economists were self-confident academics who thought the stodgy Eisenhower had depressed economic growth and raised unemployment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Sin Remembered] Reference