stodgily
- r in a stuffy manner
- Through the years, the composer's family followed his wishes, using the house for productions of Wagnerian operas that adhered slavishly and sometimes stodgily to the .
- The news is stodgily written and frequently outdated, since even such big dailies as Hamburg's Die Welt and Munich's Sddeutsche Zeitung pinch pfennigs by making correspondents .
- Best of all, he can lose his head splendidly when all about him are stodgily keeping theirs.