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Synonyms for stodginess


Grammar : Noun
Spell : stoj-ee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈstɒdʒ i

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Définition of stodginess

Origin :
  • 1823, "of a thick, semi-solid consistency," from stodge "to stuff" (1670s), of unknown origin, perhaps somehow imitative. Meaning "dull, heavy" developed by 1874 from noun sense of stodge applied to food (1825).
  • noun dullness
Example sentences :
  • There is none of the usual 'stodginess' of history in his chapters.
  • Extract from : « Fifty Years of Golf » by Horace G. Hutchinson
  • In literature we have stodginess in style and decadence in morals, and vers libre, that is to say, no verse at all.
  • Extract from : « Your Negro Neighbor » by Benjamin Brawley
  • His theatre is beginning to pander to foreign tastes, to be ashamed of itself, to take on respectability and stodginess.
  • Extract from : « Rosinante to the Road Again » by John Dos Passos

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