as in boring
causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest the sitcom was offbeat and interesting in its first season, but has since become predictable and stodgy

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

Examples of stodgy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web By the time the country began to emerge from behind the Iron Curtain in 1989, Czech food had become stodgy and unimaginative. David Farley, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2024 Virtually alone among scientific disciplines, geology suffers from a reputation as irredeemably stodgy, with all the tedious field work of paleontology and none of the velociraptors. Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024 Woman One and Woman Two, as they’re identified, slip between narrating and playing a host of characters in Cephus’s life, from stodgy church lady to lumbering bus driver (Ayer is particularly funny when piloting a Greyhound). Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 June 2024 Pious voters have long shunned the centrist CHP, repelled by its rigidly secularist ideology and stodgy, elitist image. Ayla Jean Yackley, Foreign Affairs, 12 Apr. 2019 See all Example Sentences for stodgy 

These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'stodgy.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Thesaurus Entries Near stodgy

Cite this Entry

“Stodgy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stodgy. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

More from Merriam-Webster on stodgy

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!