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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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But rather than simply repeat the even-then ossified list of events leading to the invention of photography and the medium’s later innovations, the book uses a series of stories, reminiscences, and tall tales to describe how photography transformed everyday (and not so everyday) experience.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Apr. 2026
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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
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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Ashley Narath and Aspen Wooten lost their first mini-set 5-3 against Giselle Adekunle and Khloe Akopian but bounced back to take the second set 4-1 and then win a marathon 10-point tiebreaker 14-12 (must win by two points).—
Buddy Collings,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 Apr. 2026
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The on-set archetypes of a Chinese film crew paralleled those of Hollywood.—
Chang Che,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Scott Quigley, a loyal minion of yet another septuagenarian Democrat hack DA, Marian Ryan of Middlesex County.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
26 Apr. 2026
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Locals often describe Elizabeth Creamery as a hidden gem — a small, friendly spot with homemade ice cream and a loyal following that keeps people coming back.—
Tristan Graziano,
Charlotte Observer,
24 Apr. 2026
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That said, many Mets faithful were, heading into the season, wary of how president of baseball operations David Stearns had gone about remaking a roster that had undeniably disappointed in 2025 but was full of homegrown heroes.—
Hannah Keyser,
CNN Money,
22 Apr. 2026
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In 1988, Ralph Hooper purchased the resort, expanding it into a multi-villa property, while remaining faithful to Ladera's roots as an eco-luxury resort integrated in its surroundings.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
21 Apr. 2026
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“Fogyish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fogyish. Accessed 30 Apr. 2026.
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