Thomas Hoving

When I became director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was stodgy, gray, run by elitists. I said, 'Hey, let's kick the thing around.' I wanted to attract young people to the museum. I said, 'Make it hospitable. I want them to come. I want them to make dates, pick up girls, pick up boys - either way; I don't care.

American Educator

Feisal Abdul Rauf

When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion was treated as irrelevant, hopelessly stodgy, and behind the times.

Egyptian Theologian

Edward Ruscha

I'm very stodgy. I'm always looking at old photos of California and Los Angeles, knowing that what I'm looking at is now full of houses. There used to be vacant lots in Los Angeles, now all taken up by three-storey boxes - it's all getting infilled.

American Artist

Jemele Hill

Contrary to stodgy opinions, young men have a right to go out. They want to hang with their peers. They want to talk to women. They want to show off a little of their success. Nothing wrong with any of that - as long as they're careful.

American Journalist

Don Willett

I think people just find it remarkable that a high court justice would step out from behind the bench and have a persona that's not the traditional, stodgy, fuddy-duddy persona, but actually comes across as authentic and engaging.

American Judge

Ryan Holmes

I'd like to think my company HootSuite is anything but a stodgy old-boys' club. As a social media company, our employees are by and large young, progressive and open-minded.

Canadian Businessman

Anna Quindlen

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.

Use 'stodgy' when describing dense, heavy food that makes you feel full quickly.

Food Context

'Stodgy' implies that the food might cause discomfort due to its heaviness.

Digestion Focus

Describing food as 'stodgy' generally suggests it is not enjoyable.

Not a Compliment

Use 'stodgy' to suggest something is so dull it doesn't hold your attention.

Engagement Level

'Stodgy' typically carries a negative tone when describing boring people or things.

Negative Tone

'Stodgy' conveys a sense of strict traditionality and resistance to change.

Change Resistant

Stodgy methods can imply outdated or obsolete ways of thinking and acting.

Innovation Averse

 still a very completely safe, stodgy type of encyclopedia. Wikipedia, on the other hand, begins with a very radical idea, and that's for all of us to imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. And that's what we're doing.

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 I've had this checked by the two top consumer credit lawyers in the country this is a real thing now I want one step further and said why do we have to stick with the stodgy lawyers and just have a paper document let's go online so many