stuffy
Example Sentences
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On the run from her well-to-do, stuffy colonial background, she launched herself into London’s bohemia.
It’s a stuffy space beneath the sloping garage roof, with maybe thirty birds in cages.
From Literature
“Sorry, it’s...just stuffy in here,” she said.
From Literature
Let's be honest, Spurs are not an attractive team to watch at the moment, and they are very stuffy and scrappy whether they win or not.
From BBC
“There’s a reputation that museums, and particularly art museums, have of being kind of stuffy or like elitist or something like that, which is not something that I personally agree with,” says Critchley.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
