adjectives
heavy and starchy and hard to digest
"stodgy food"; "a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full"
is similar to
digested with difficulty
(used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned
"moss-grown ideas about family life"
excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
"why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?"; "a stodgy dinner party"