Example sentences for: stodgy

How can you use “stodgy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • (One of the truly ludicrous things about Brian Arthur's fantasy about how stodgy economists refused to listen to his radical ideas is that it is set in an era that everyone knows was in fact marked by a manic neophilia, a worship of the wild and crazy.)

  • The cover story credits the economic boom to Alan Greenspan, America's capitalists, and Michael Milken (his junk bonds enabled undercapitalized but bold firms to take over and streamline stodgy companies).

  • Outrage greets the stodgy museum's exhibition of brash, hipster "Britpack" artists.

  • The Wall Street Journal says the choice proves that H-P "is serious about continuing to revamp its stodgy image," while a New York Times editorial calls it evidence that the glass ceiling "is at least cracking."

  • 2) It's the handiwork of stodgy white males.


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