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
  • Now the 10% is for stubborn old fogies who refuse to change their ways and try something new.
    Chris McKeown, Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Old fogey-ish, ungrateful and stupid.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 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
  • Among the highlights is a chance to set foot on the coral island of Rurutu, with troglodyte caves and hiking routes.
    Chrissie McClatchie, Travel + Leisure, 29 Jan. 2026
  • 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
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
  • While pleased to see the digital reconstruction, Martin said the geological age of the fossil remains unclear since different techniques have arrived at varied dates.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 7 Mar. 2026
  • The Upper Cretaceous units of the Bauru Group in Brazil boast one of the most impressive fossil records of reptilian clades, according to a new study published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 7 Mar. 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
  • What’s your favorite thing about doing what feels like, in a really great way, a classic, fun throwback network procedural like this?
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Céline Dion posted a few summer throwback photos from a trip to Cape Town in 2008.
    Juliana Ukiomogbe, InStyle, 5 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The idea of an actual vault that holds your money safely is gone with the dodo birds.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • But their projects to bring back the woolly mammoth and other extinct species such as the dodo and the Tasmanian tiger have led some critics to take Colossal to task for tampering with nature just like in the movies.
    Mike Snider, USA Today, 17 Feb. 2026

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“Stodge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stodge. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.

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