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or fogeyish
as in stodgy
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Adjective
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One team looked sloppy, stodgy, prone to silly penalties, indifferent to tackling and mentally soft.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
11 Oct. 2025 -
This would not have been a serious consideration midway through Newcastle’s 2-0 win against struggling, flailing Nottingham Forest — the nothingness of half-time was like a blessed relief — but a stodgy, slow-burning afternoon concluded with Howe’s team comfortable and edging towards dominance.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
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Bonus points for Sarah Sherman’s dowdy character, who accidentally got on the Epstein list.—
Rima Parikh,
Vulture,
5 Oct. 2025
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Once known for dowdy packaging and perhaps questionable tastes or ingredients, the products now compete with national name brands, sparking a shakeup among major food companies.—
Jordan Valinsky,
CNN Money,
24 Sep. 2025
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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
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Really late developers, who might not be fully grown until around 20 or 21, could be 25 before their apophyseal sites are fully ossified.—
Sarah Shephard,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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Mental health facilities rarely have a set floor plan, but most follow a similar blueprint.—
Mankaprr Conteh,
Rolling Stone,
16 Oct. 2025
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Most notably, he was involved in the fatal 2021 on-set shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during the filming of Rust.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025
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The outlet also opined that someone who is brought into a business venture because of their loyalty to MAGA could feel more pressure to remain loyal.—
Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
21 Oct. 2025
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The Nazi regime urged pastors to join a nationalist Reich Church more loyal to Adolf Hitler than to God.—
Rev. Nathan Empsall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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But yeah, the film is very, very faithful to the screenplay.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
16 Oct. 2025
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In a steady rain, about 80 faithful from around Northern California congregated outside the California state Capitol on Tuesday in Sacramento to celebrate the 32nd birthday of Charlie Kirk, the MAGA youth pundit who was shot and killed on a college campus last month.—
Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
14 Oct. 2025
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Since then, McCarthy has had to tread somewhat lightly between the ultraright caucus and the rest of his party.—
Prem Thakker,
The New Republic,
10 Mar. 2023
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Because Jesuits often sided with El Salvador’s poor and some kept records of human rights violations, they were hated by the country’s ultraright.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2021
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“Fogyish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fogyish. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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