| Like, we still go out and get drunk or sometimes stoned or high and go to cool places until closing, and not get all stodgy and coupley. |
| Yorkshire food is traditionally seen as staid and stodgy, but can be modern and exciting. |
| Their salted and smoked meat was useful to give savour to otherwise stodgy dishes, and was especially important for the poor. |
| The lumbering gait of his stodgy and dated modal writing needs visuals to gee it up. |
| They don't organise like a communist party and their world view is radically different from that of the stodgy dogmatists of the past. |
| The two aunts, originally meant to be stodgy and throwbacks to the Victorian age, come across immediately as warm, lovable eccentrics. |
