stodge

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In recent days, software stocks and other risky assets have been mowed down by artificial intelligence, but stodgier stocks are springing up to replace them among the market’s leaders.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

Overall, viewers get a ridiculously entertaining and colorful nostalgia trip that may be impossible to believe would have existed in the stodgier 1950s.

From Washington Times • Apr. 22, 2022

It was always a more polite but stodgier version of “Crossfire” — a cancelled format co-created by Buchanan.

From Salon • Aug. 18, 2019

As shrewd as he is angry, Jordan's Erik Killmonger is a different kind of bad guy: one whose tragic origin story and well-argued motivations make him at times more sympathetic than the stodgier, stingier hero.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2018

Angel cake, that melted in the mouth, and his rather stodgier companion bursting with peel and raisins.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier