stuffy
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If it’s starting to feel a little stuffy around here, it’s not just you, it’s a preview of what’s coming for the rest of the week in Southern California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
There's nothing worse than putting a child to sleep in a stuffy bedroom when you're already sweating.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
I hooked my arm through the crook of his, turning back toward the empty streets and our stuffy Airbnb.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
Golf’s break out of its stuffy, country-club reputation should help the industry play the long game.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
After a week of being kept at home in our stuffy rooms above the shop, I supposed I was lucky to even be let outside.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
How delightfully ironic that Mary and her avant-garde charm, which was once polarizing and niche to the film’s stuffier early critics, were finally finding a wider audience.
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2025
Many of them prefer data science or finance, while accounting struggles with a stuffier, more old-fashioned image.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
In which case I’d resort to a calmer, stuffier word, like “major.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2022
The fight now seems silly — jazz has managed to accommodate many styles and genres — but it can still raise ruffles in the stuffier or more progressive quarters.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2017
Four hundred brand-new students made the auditorium of Xin-zha Junior High School even stuffier.
From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang
Naturally, this is the film’s opening scene, intended to communicate that managing Tourette’s is a lifelong endeavor, but that even the stuffiest, most proper royal figurehead can meet the condition with patience and understanding.
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026
Of all the neighborhoods in New York City, the Upper East Side has long had a reputation for being the most boring, old-school and stuffiest part of town.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
Held at Riviera, one of the best, and stuffiest, courses in the country.
From Golf Digest ● Feb. 27, 2020
Only the stuffiest prig would say "Whom are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?"
From The Guardian ● Aug. 15, 2014
They’d taken a job at the Louvre because it was the stuffiest place in Paris.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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