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stodgy

/'stɑdʒi/

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adjective
(used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned
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fogyish moss-grown mossy stick-in-the-mud unfashionable unstylish
adjective
excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
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"why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?" "a stodgy dinner party"

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stuffy conventional
adjective
heavy and starchy and hard to digest
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"stodgy food" "a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full"

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indigestible

Examples of stodgy

"why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?"
"a stodgy dinner party"
"stodgy food"
"a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full"