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 stodgy ['stɑdʒɪ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 易吃饱的, 塞满的, 平凡的, 庸俗的, 步履艰难的



    stodgy
    stodgier, stodgiest
    [ adj ]
    1. heavy and starchy and hard to digest

      2. <adj.all>
      stodgy food
      a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full
    2. (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned

      3. <adj.all>
      moss-grown ideas about family life
    3. excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull

      4. <adj.all>
      why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?
      a stodgy dinner party


    Stodgy \Stodg"y\, a.
    Wet. [Prov. Eng.] --G. Eliot.

    1. The prime minister, who believes companies perform better when the government isn't running them, has overseen the transformation of stodgy nationalized industries into thriving competitive businesses.
    2. Tea and cakes, for example, look stodgy in the face of newer drinks and snacks. Given the industry's problems, who would be buyers?
    3. At one point, he says, Mr. Descarpentries was threatening to seek #100 million ($179.6 million) in restitution for the French shareholders. He began openly criticizing Metal Box in meetings, and denigrating Metal Box people for being too stodgy.
    4. But when Cheryl Crawford, Lee Strasberg and Harold Clurman founded The Group Theatre in 1931, Broadway was awash in polite drawing-room comedies and stodgy, mainstream drama.
    5. But the stodgy, corrupt, bureaucratic Soviet system did not allow them to put novel, productive ideas into practice.
    6. The central bank's intervention is the culmination of a protracted, accelerating slide for Skopbank, an investment bank owned by Finland's stodgy savings bank federation.
    7. Long a fixture in Europe, do-everything banks generally are praised for being stable, sometimes to the point of being stodgy, and offering a vast range of services in one place to harried consumers.
    8. The executive is known to chafe at stodgy corporate bureaucracies, preferring to work with a small team of people, some of whom have worked with him for a decade or more.
    9. Bell & Howell Co., which has spent the better part of a decade battling a stodgy image as a maker of movie cameras and microfilm readers, is suddenly attracting a lot of interest.
    10. But that doesn't mean stodgy." In the 1987-88 season ratings, CBS finished last behind NBC and ABC for the first time.
    11. At Ms. Goldmark's behest, he also undergoes an unconvincing personality transformation from stodgy lawyer to sexual athlete.
    12. Little, Brown has a solid if stodgy reputation in the publishing world and a much lower profile than Time Warner's other book publisher, Warner Books.
    13. The combination of the higher dollar and Corning's stodgy product design allowed foreign firms to boost their market share to 50% from 10%.
    14. New ownership can bring a fresh outlook to stodgy companies and create new synergies.
    15. For many investors, safe and stodgy Treasury securities (or money funds and CDs) may still be the best bet.
    16. Charles Koch moved quickly to put his own stamp on the profitable but stodgy firm, which earned $8 million on revenue of $250 million in 1967.
    17. His youthful elegance and trademark Liberal-red tie were an attractive alternative to the stodgy and fractious Tories.
    18. The stodgy, tightly structured Communist Party has been losing members for a decade, essentially because it has failed to adapt its language to a changing French society which is better educated, more sophisticated and less doctrinaire.
    19. Here the cinema rounds off its stodgy adaptation of Neil Simon's autobiographical stage trilogy.
    20. Long words are often a sign of a stodgy style that sends readers to sleep." _ "Use short sentences.
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