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In that line of work, you’ve got to get some stuffy studio executives to write a check for $50,000,000 in order to bring a story to life that someone might ruin with a poor director.”

From Salon ● Sep. 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

What the company is after from the Royal Pop collaboration is cultural relevance and a less stuffy image.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

I mean, I might end up getting roped into buying something — not a Labubu because that’s over but some sort of kawaii animal stuffy.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026

The little waiting area is full of people, and the room smells stuffy, hot and sweaty after my run through the clean cold.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

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

The group parodied the sashes and ceremonies of stuffier and wealthier social clubs, like the Odd Fellows and Freemasons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2017

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

A thick blanket of dust covers the stairs, and it gets stuffier the farther down we go.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

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

In making them, company veterans argue, the firm opened up the stuffiest, cartelised corners of India’s economy.

From Economist ● Jul. 31, 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