| 词汇 | stodginess |
| 释义 | stodginess noun[ U ] informaldisapprovinguk /ˈstɒdʒ.i.nəs/ us /ˈstɑː.dʒi.nəs/ stodginessnoun[U] (FOOD)the quality of being heavy and making you feel full very quickly: 让人易饱，稠厚不可口 This method gives a light and fluffy pudding with no stodginess.这种方法做出来的布丁质地轻盈、蓬松，没有一点稠厚的感觉。 It's not bad tasting, but there's a greasy stodginess to it compared to some of the others. Bread pudding seems to divide people. Either you think it's dry, bland and uninspiring, or you love its homey, comforting stodginess. Not pleasant to eat or drink (as) tough as old bootsidiom acrid bitter bitterness bland chewy dishwater insipidly insipidness like dishwateridiom mouldy overripe pungent stale staleness stick to someone's ribsidiom stodgy swill unripe watery stodginessnoun[U] (BORING)the quality of being boring, formal, or old-fashioned: the stodginess of some academic writing See stodgy They strove to avoid the stodginess often associated with academia. Wednesday's hearing had little of the stodginess that afflicts many legislative hearings. The stodginess of such a career was symbolised by the stodginess of their dress. The media sometimes lampoon her stodginess and occasional severity. Boredom, tedium and boring things banality blandness boredom cabin fever commonplace ennui flatness frustration insipidness jejune same screed snooze snoozefest sterility stuffiness the same old thingidiom torpor turgid yawningly Examples of stodginessstodginess He is pleading for stodginess; he is pleading for waste and staying in a rut. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Through bad conditions, not enough pay, and inadequate opportunities for promotion to get to the higher level; and through the stodginess of management and lethargy in the managerial set-up. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The stodginess and overwrought decor from liners of the past was jettisoned to create a comfortable and friendly ship. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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