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Definition of Stodgily
1. Adverb. In a stuffy manner. "`Come in please,' he said stuffily"
Definition of Stodgily
1. Adverb. In a stodgy manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stodgily
1. stodgy [adv] - See also: stodgy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stodgily
Literary usage of Stodgily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Chapman, at once more Puritanical and more "conceited," is stodgily concerned
for the legality of the lovers' marriage, sermonizes about their passion, ..."
2. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"... with high walls,—high because the street was so narrow,—and alive with people
bobbing along under umbrellas or walking stodgily in the rain. ..."
3. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"slow be a great hit with” (stodgily defined in dictionaries ‘overwhelm”): . . .
it turns out Harold and ..."
4. Japan at First Hand: Her Islands, Their People, the Picturesque, the Real by Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke (1918)
"On her return to Japan dressed stodgily in rich "American" clothes she makes
trouble for her little son and the second wife of ..."
5. In the Shade of an Acacia Tree: Memoirs of a Health Officer in Africa, 1945-1959 by Frank L. Lambrecht (1991)
"Yet none of the repairs seemed to impress the engine, which stodgily refused to
fire. I clearly needed outside help. I asked for someone with a bicycle and ..."
6. In the Shade of an Acacia Tree: Memoirs of a Health Officer in Africa, 1945-1959 by Frank L. Lambrecht (1991)
"Yet none of the repairs seemed to impress the engine, which stodgily refused to
fire. I clearly needed outside help. I asked for someone with a bicycle and ..."
7. The Midland by Frank Luther Mott, John Towner Frederick (1918)
"The dog had curled up on the foot of our bed and was scratching, rather stodgily,
at an ear. "He seems to have taken up with another. ..."
8. Crowds; a Moving-picture of Democracy by Gerald Stanley Lee (1913)
"It is forced upon one a little, of course, having all those other people about
one stodgily standing up for people and not really seeing through them! ..."
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