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  • adjective comparative form of stodgy: more stodgy

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Examples

  • It pays to focus on older, stodgier companies being sold by private-equity firms.

    Playing the IPO Boom Ben Levisohn 2011

  • Owners of stodgier office spaces are tearing up their floor plans to chase the market.

    Can't Afford an Office? Rent a Desk for $275 Emily Glazer 2011

  • But the forum has outpaced the other, stodgier gay e-mail lists by drawing in members with rollicking discussions about figure skater Johnny Weir's performances at the Winter Olympics.

    To foster connections, gay congressional staffers think Pink Hill Mafia Jason Horowitz 2010

  • It can pay to look beyond the sexy IPOs springing from venture-capital firms and toward stodgier fare offered by private-equity firms.

    Playing the IPO Boom Ben Levisohn 2011

  • Bani, 26, who works for a nonprofit organization and was dressed Thursday evening in a stylish geometric-patterned tunic, started the group two years ago using a Meetup Web page as an alternative to the stodgier, older mom groups across Loudoun County.

    Hip Muslim Moms group undone by D.C. Metro bomb plot Tara Bahrampour 2010

  • But the forum has outpaced the other, stodgier gay listservs by drawing in members with rollicking discussions about figure skater Johnny Weir's performances at the Winter Olympics.

    'Pink Hill Mafia' injects color into Capitol Hill's dull listserv culture Jason Horowitz 2010

  • It pays to focus on older, stodgier companies being sold by private-equity firms.

    Playing the IPO Boom Ben Levisohn 2011

  • It can pay to look beyond the sexy IPOs springing from venture-capital firms and toward stodgier fare offered by private-equity firms.

    Playing the IPO Boom Ben Levisohn 2011

  • If the AFL sought to present itself as the perfect embodiment of the 1960s — a hip, wide-open alternative to the stodgier NFL — perhaps no team better represented that ideal than the high-flying San Diego Chargers.

    Chargers' days with Al Davis set stage for Raiders rivalry 2009

  • To make this all a bit more digestible for a modern palate, the director has trimmed away some of the pomp, as well as the stodgier verbiage of "Henry VIII," and the reductions make for a more playable evening.

    Theater review: Folger Theatre's 'Henry VIII' Peter Marks 2010

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