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 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

When it came to picking a title for the course they will teach this spring, University of Washington professors Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West decided to abandon academic stodginess and get edgy.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 28, 2017

Its insolent stodginess has only a surface resemblance to a fluid; yet it is a comfort on snowy mornings, and our wanderers took to it kindly.

From A Dream of the North Sea by Runciman, James