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or fogeyish
as in stodgy
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Adjective
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Many of the stodgier unwritten rules are ignored or no longer enforced, but some things remain constant, especially in the stands.—
Andrew Baggarly,
New York Times,
23 Aug. 2025 -
Peter Pan is the avatar of eternal childhood, refusal to become a stodgy old pirate.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
19 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Defense leaders have sat on their hands, refusing to acknowledge the need for dowdy, run-of-the-mill tankers.—
Craig Hooper,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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Jennifer Jason Leigh plays Catherine as hopelessly dowdy, bumbling, and awkward, even within the confines of her own drawing room.—
Elle Carroll,
Vulture,
11 Aug. 2025
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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Some organizations call people back to the office a set number of days each week.—
Nirit Cohen,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The reason the second and third year of the salaries don’t have a set increase is because the village picks up the entire tab for the health/dental premium for public works employees.—
Hank Beckman,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Community traction is strongest in Asia, Europe, and Latin America, where XRP already commands a loyal user base.—
Sean Lee,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Save for slightly fleshing out some of these roles, Ozon’s script is loyal to the point of lifting most lines of dialogue verbatim.—
Sophie Monks Kaufman,
IndieWire,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Some were faithful copies, while others were reproduced in different colors or fabrics to lend a visual unity to the scene, which is designed to mirror the eerie fairy-tale aesthetic of the fashion film within the film.—
Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
5 Sep. 2025
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Much of that popularity is thanks to a concerted campaign by the Vatican to give the next generation of faithful a relatable, modern-day role model, who used his technological talents to spread the faith.—
Jessie Wardarski,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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 10 Sep. 2025.
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