stodgy 的定义
stodg·i·er, stodg·i·est.
- heavy, dull, or uninteresting; tediously commonplace; boring: a stodgy Victorian novel.
- of a thick, semisolid consistency; heavy, as food.
- stocky; thick-set.
- old-fashioned; unduly formal and traditional: a stodgy old gentleman.
- dull; graceless; inelegant: a stodgy business suit.
stodgy 近义词
dull, stuffy
更多stodgy例句
- The once stodgy Television Academy, which votes on the Emmys, continued its recent trend of recognizing new hits and zeitgeist-capturing programming.
- People over profitSteve Hyde, CEO of 360xec, talked about the coronavirus crisis exposing companies who had “camouflaged” stodgy, legacy-based leadership structures.
- It was, he says, “a stodgy and old-fashioned discipline” when he entered it in the 1980s.
- “I guess I felt it to be stodgy, self-satisfied, maybe a little dull,” he confesses.
- My first thought was, “Wow, what an incredibly bold purchase for a stodgy auto exec.”
- The mix of small, stodgy businesses and glamorous retailers worked for another decade—until 2009, when the bottom fell out again.
- And of course, the cars that we mostly know them for: streamlined, a little stodgy, and very much of their era.
- Hoosh is a stodgy, porridge-like mixture of pemmican, dried biscuit and water, brought to the boil and served hot.
- Nothing can be more stodgy, more wearisome, more unprofitable, more away from all the finer ends of dramatic art.
- In fact he was a publican who was bound to serve stodgy food as well as exhilarating drink.
- They're so stodgy and unconvincing and as out-of-date as tunes in music.
- Well, I'm not stodgy any longer, Esme Falconer; you've reformed me.