stodginess

Example Sentences

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The name is tongue-in-cheek, but investors haven’t had patience for actual stodginess lately.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

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

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

But it is this very stodginess that makes it, if you love Wordsworth, the perfect book where there can be only one.

From The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen by Arnim, Elizabeth von