stodge

British

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of stodge In the oven, the zucchini gave enough liquid to finish cooking the rice, and the cream was a more delicate binder than roux, which so frequently turns a gratin into stodge. New York Times, 27 Aug. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stodge
Noun
  • Old fogey-ish, ungrateful and stupid.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2025
  • These are people who know AI and have grown up with this stuff that these old fogies haven't.
    Alison Snyder, Axios, 23 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In the Herbert Ross film, Bacon played big-city teen Ren McCormack, who moves to the small town of Bomont, where its stick-in-the-mud local minster, the Rev. Shaw Moore (John Lithgow), has instituted a ban on dancing.
    EW.com, EW.com, 9 Nov. 2023
  • David Corenswet plays, quite literally, a stick-in-the-mud character.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Noun
  • Mini Winnie is a western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus), a subspecies whose numbers have plummeted by more than 80% in the last two decades.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Warren Buffet was considered a technical troglodyte for never investing in the dot-com boom.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This man performed in all of Shakespeare’s plays, Assumed all parts from mossbacks to boys young.
    Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2019
Noun
  • Among the party’s goals are redistributing wealth, taxing the very rich, making rail and energy publicly owned, standing up to fossil-fuel giants, and ending arms sales to Israel.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2025
  • From the Elgol dinosaur to the Krusatodon or the world’s largest pterosaur fossil from the Jurassic period, fossils found here have shaped our understanding of the prehistoric world.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The father, Buddy Smart (Bryan Cranston), is the clan’s second-rate crackpot visionary, a cockeyed optimist who dresses in fuddy-duddy jackets and never knows where the next paycheck is coming from.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 June 2025
  • Her characters were women whose roles often implied their own eventual replacements: teachers, fading former love interests, fuddy-duddy old-fashioned relics.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024

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“Stodge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stodge. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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