stodginess

Example Sentences

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Letterman’s offbeat, sardonic brand of humor also gave a layer of hipness to CBS, which had long had a reputation for stodginess.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2025

The supporting performers kept the evening from slipping too far into stodginess.

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2021

The creativity of this style of quizzing, I’m convinced, is also a reaction to the stodginess that infects Indian education.

From The Guardian • Jan. 28, 2020

That a bodysuit seems so revolutionary on a tennis court is a testament to the stodginess of the sport and the judginess of its observers.

From Slate • May 31, 2018

Though her feet and hands were small in the extreme, they could not counteract the effect of that betraying stodginess of figure.

From Life on the Stage by Morris, Clara