Stodgy

"You can find great opportunities in stodgy old-fashioned blue-chip stocks." ❋ Unknown (2008)

But now, fully entrenched in stodgy-hearted adulthood, I'm more inclined toward The Power of More-Than-One, especially when the goal is to make a significant difference. ❋ Unknown (2005)

It is a known quantity, even if it was known as a stodgy company for a while. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is by no accident that the British -- whom foreigners delight to call stodgy and slow-witted, -- have produced more high-class poetry than any other nation in the history of the world. ❋ William Lyon Phelps (1904)

He could eat, really eat, if it was part of a game, but he could not stodge just to feel stodgy, which is what most children like better than anything else; the next best thing being to talk about it. ❋ F. D. [Illustrator] Bedford (1898)

At all times reverent to more than twenty years of Mario platforming, NSMB Wii never feels tired, repetitive or stodgy, which is something of an achievement unto itself. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I know I was one, but I suspect that I have grown into the kind of stodgy adult who is going to have a real problem with crackly voices, "fur, where there was no fur before" and any kind of freak-outs that involve violation, destruction of premises or partial nudity. ❋ Tyler (2009)

The difference between the good and bad movie trailers of course is whether they act as an enticing, spicy appetiser; or as the kind of stodgy nibbles that spoil your appetite for the main course. ❋ Unknown (2008)

For them, Crossfire stands out for its narrative and visual style — clearly linked to Murder, My Sweet, the original Scott-Paxton-Dmytryk noir — which for them sets Crossfire definitely apart from a "stodgy" social problem film like The Best Years of Our Lives (though Gentleman's Agreement is probably the more appropriate comparison) .1 ❋ Unknown (2007)

I also think that this is the kind of stodgy stuff that fuels classical music's "elitist" perception, a sort of logo-centric, metaphysical dogmatism looking-down upon difference of opinion. ❋ Lisa Hirsch (2008)

At the same time, Ms. Isono says, the hotel is aiming to appeal to a younger market and avoid a "stodgy" feel. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I still have my problems with most of Wallis's Paramount filmss, most of which -- even the good ones -- seem kind of stodgy compared to what he was doing at Warners. ❋ Jaime J. Weinman (2008)

Classy Is CoolAs an artist, I may be a bit more funky than many people, but I object to your calling Coach's traditional bags "stodgy," "dowdy" and "doomed to style obsolescence" ( "Put Me in Coach, I'm Ready to Pay," June 2). ❋ Unknown (2007)

His portfolio was firmly anchored via its "stodgy" cornucopia of meat-and-potatoes businesses like paint, construction materials, ice cream, jewelry and carpeting concerns. ❋ Unknown (2006)

He didn’t change hockey culture, but at least showed there was a possibility for tolerance in a sport so often characterized as stodgy and closed-minded. ❋ Rob Higgins (2010)

1. "Urgh, you're looking really stodgy. I'd try [starvation] for a good few months if I were you." 2. "I'm starving. [Dya] wana eat some [stodge]?" ❋ Potato Obsessive (2005)

1. yeah we went down the park with a bottle of [cider] and got pissed, it was bare stodgy2. you'll all be wearing fishermen [knit] [sweaters] next year - their stodgy ❋ Alicia T. (2004)

[Lindsay Blake] is [stodgy] [as hell]. ❋ XMichaelx (2008)

"That game has [no coop], it's [stodgey]" "My mum won't buy me an XBox360!" "Wow that's [stodgy]." "How stodgy is that" ❋ Its Me Lenny (2008)

Me and [stodgy :p] are gonna go to [Maryland] this weekend and eat [potatoes] with milk ❋ The Smarty Farty 420 (2022)

you [friggin] [stodgy biscuit] ❋ Jess'n'Abbs (2010)