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Definition of Stodgiest
1. stodgy [adj] - See also: stodgy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stodgiest
Literary usage of Stodgiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"... Poor as stodgiest plum-duff, And the eggs entirely wasted. They who change of
Chef advise Are abused and charged with treason. ..."
2. The Drama and the Stage by Ludwig Lewisohn (1922)
"... each moves toward a point at which historic and artistic culmination are
identical, the stodgiest technician has but an illusory reason for his quarrel. ..."
3. The Drama and the Stage by Ludwig Lewisohn (1922)
"... each moves toward a point at which historic and artistic culmination are
identical, the stodgiest technician has but an illusory reason for his quarrel. ..."
4. American Painting and Its Tradition: As Represented by Inness, Wyant, Martin by John Charles Van Dyke (1919)
"If there was little question at this time about Whistler's pictures, there was
none at all about his etchings. Every one, even the stodgiest of Britons, ..."
5. Essays in London and Elsewhere by Henry James (1893)
"... it is a tremendous chapter of accidents—the London-lover has to confess to
the I existence of miles upon miles of the dreariest, stodgiest commonness. ..."
6. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"old adage ind on all levels of writing except the stodgiest. Unless you are taking
freshman English, you can use it freely. old adage We find the expression ..."
7. Essays in London and Elsewhere by Henry James (1893)
"... the existence of miles upon miles of the dreariest, stodgiest commonness.
Thousands of acres are covered by low black houses of the cheapest ..."
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