"stodgy" in the adjective sense

1. stodgy

heavy and starchy and hard to digest

"stodgy food"

"a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full"

2. fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud, stodgy

used pejoratively) out of fashion old fashioned

"moss-grown ideas about family life"

3. stodgy, stuffy

excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull

"why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?"

"a stodgy dinner party"

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