Adjective
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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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(used pejoratively) out of fashion
old fashioned
"moss-grown ideas about family life"
- moss grown - stick in the mud -
heavy and starchy and hard to digest
"stodgy food"
"a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full"