stodge

British

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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
  • Populists, protectionists, fossil-fuel lobbies, to name a few.
    Natalie Unterstell, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Mongolia has spent years fighting for the return of dinosaur fossils from around the globe.
    Sam Tabachnik, Denver Post, 6 Nov. 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
Noun
  • That shot-on-film aspect lends to the film feeling like a throwback to classic coming-of-age movies, but with a chilling twist.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 10 Nov. 2025
  • To mark the occasion, Vanessa shared an Instagram post featuring a throwback photo of the very first joint birthday the couple celebrated together back in 2006.
    Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 10 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Synopsis reads: Dave is the last of his kind: a naive, relentlessly optimistic dodo, who faces extinction in the dangerous streets of 1628 London.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2025

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“Stodge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stodge. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.

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