stodgy

They do the right thing, and yet they're not stodgy.

But they were old enough to be concerned about their stodgy image.

He had a stodgy old man's attitude to the world.

"What they know is stodgy by American standards," she said.

He found them stodgy and did not try to hide it.

If you want to be stern and stodgy, go ahead, he seemed to mean.

My thoughts; The university system is like an old stodgy business.

But these plans began looking stodgy in the bull market.

Just three years later, he took over Reliance, a stodgy insurance company.

In some things, she recognized that William was a little stodgy.

As for first names, many sound formal if not stodgy.

"But how do you bridge the natural approach with that age group and not make it stodgy?"

Brooks had been stodgy and conservative when I was trying to get in.

Its sight lines are good, but the food is quite expensive and stodgy.

They would act at last like entrepreneurs, not stodgy bureaucrats.

It made other women in conventional long dresses look stodgy.

Even my stodgy conservative father admitted it was time to go for a long shot.

But this view did not make for stodgy, predictable assessments.

Did she see that she had called him old and stodgy?

They do, however, attract the young to an activity often dismissed as stodgy.

She sees herself as a rather stodgy explorer, working only with what is clearly there.

"She goes to the bar association - these very stodgy people.

It's too easy for a firm such as this to become stodgy."

He is much too stodgy and dull to do anything like that."

Be somebody other than your stodgy self just for once!"