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or fogeyish
as in stodgy
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Adjective
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Luxury ships often lean stodgy, yet Silver Nova offers that upbeat, higher-energy feel that upper-premium and premium lines provide.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
15 Apr. 2026 -
This is the story of Cukor’s private war against a stodgy Pentagon bureaucracy.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
15 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Kudrow plays Valerie Cherish playing Aunt Sassy, a dowdy sidekick character.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2026
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Memorably dowdy fashion notwithstanding, the juicy role — part Nurse Ratched, part Jack Torrance — launched Bates into the Hollywood ether following years of false starts.—
Darren Franich,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Huntington, a lifelong Democrat, was accused of blimpish conservatism, jingoism or worse.—
Gary J. Bass,
New York Times,
29 June 2018
Adjective
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Lockhart, a mathematician who taught first at Brown University and UC Santa Cruz and then for many years at Saint Ann’s, a progressive private school in Brooklyn, argues that the injury is due to our ossified K–12 mathematics curriculum.—
Dan Rockmore,
The New York Review of Books,
19 Mar. 2026
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The collective dream was for a new, democratic structure that could replace Assad’s ossified legal regime.—
Anand Gopal,
New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The President, this faction argued, was too cowed by hawkish interventionists like Mark Levin, a neoconservative commentator.—
Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Those twenty-five years or so were the apex of Washington Consensus conservatism, of neoconservative interventions abroad and neoliberal economic policy at home.—
Suzanne Schneider,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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There’s no set price—that’s how dynamic pricing works.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Playing with no set strategy proved effective for the champion, Julio Rivera, a 29-year-old veterinary assistant, who walked away with the coveted $10,000 check.—
Brian Cheung,
NBC news,
20 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Scalping tickets wasn’t new, of course, but Kahn believed that its formalization online provided sports teams, and other entertainment businesses, with valuable information about demand that could enable them to make more money without alienating their most loyal fans.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Kenny has always been loyal, kind, generous with his praise.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
19 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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So far, things are shaping up in a positive way for enthusiasts and the brand’s faithful fans.—
Joel Feder,
The Drive,
15 Apr. 2026
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Tiny lines and textures in my ISO test scene blur together entirely at the maximum ISO 12800 setting, but colors remain faithful.—
Jim Fisher,
PC Magazine,
14 Apr. 2026
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“Fogyish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fogyish. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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