stodge

Definition of stodgenext
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
  • Bostwick starred as the naive stick-in-the-mud and fiancé of Janice, Brad.
    Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Many wonders made the list, including royal burial grounds in Egypt, an Indonesian archipelago of 1,500 islands and Turkish cliffs formerly inhabited by Bronze Age troglodytes (cave dwellers).
    John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2025
  • 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
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
  • Public power is the answer to this fossil-fuel graft.
    Diana Moreno, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Like Homo antecessor, the Casablanca fossils have a mix of characteristics from Homo erectus, ourselves and our cousins.
    CBS News, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • For someone who’s constantly on speakerphone, Tommy sure is a fuddy-duddy about using it correctly.
    William Earl, Variety, 30 Nov. 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
Noun
  • The daddy-daughter duo are pictured spending some quality time together in this throwback photo.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Gap High-Rise ‘90s Straight-Fit Jeans Gap’s High-Rise ‘90s Straight-Fit Jeans have that perfectly retro fit, offering a bit of throwback roominess while still sticking with a slim silhouette.
    Annie Blackman, InStyle, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Colossal is also making breakthroughs on its dodo bird and thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) projects, framing de-extinction not as spectacle, but as a tool for conservation, resilience and ethical reflection.
    Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 22 Dec. 2025
  • In modern times, the Tasmanian tiger, the dodo, and the Steller's sea cow are but a few iconic examples of species lost as a result of human activity.
    Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Stodge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stodge. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.

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