Examples of stodgy

• Over-dramatic dialogues, deliberately forced songs and inflated action sequences make it quite a predictable and stodgy fare.

• What should have been a fun lark of a story seems almost stodgy, like your grandmother's idea of a good time.

• The station had often been criticized as a dinosaur and the announcing style was viewed as stodgy.

• The paper suffered many teething problems, coming under fire for being too serious and stodgy.

• On the show, he ran a respectful, serene courtroom and was known for his stodgy, easygoing manner.

• To him the old company was worthy but dowdy and stodgy.

• Channel 4 calls it a stodgy, sentimental brew and a well-meaning film that doesn't really amount to much in the long run.

• She is an imaginary woman, full of life and gaiety, who sees him not as a stodgy old businessman but as a gallant youth.