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Word entry · 6 letters

stodgy

Best crossword clue

"Dull and heavy"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈstɒ.d͡ʒi/Part of speech adjectiveSorted dgostyStarts with SEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull

Word origin

Unknown, but possibly from stodge (“to stuff”), from stog, or a blend of stuffy + podgy.

Used in a sentence

  • I gave up trying to get that stodgy club to try anything new.
  • Safer! Good lord! what could you have safer than a stodgy second-rate boarding-house in Hapsburg Square? The place drones respectability.
  • “. . . Why! Why! Why is the middle-class so stodgy—so utterly without a sense of humour! My dear, it's only by a fluke that I am here at all—Norman being the protective fluke.”

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