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Example sentences for: stodgy

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Outrage greets the stodgy museum's exhibition of brash, hipster "Britpack" artists.
Have the changes she has wrought enlivened a stodgy magazine or vulgarized a dignified one--or both?
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).
And a story argues that bustling, open-minded Shanghai, rather than stodgy, authoritarian Beijing, is the future of China.
These little contradictions aside, one wonders why stodgy Caucasian Republicans are playing the victimology card at all.