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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

Yet another summer heatwave could be on the way to make your commute sweaty and your workplace stuffy.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

When they can’t, they close the door to a small, stuffy office to eat their lunch — the same office where the rat has been hiding for three weeks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 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

Its comforts were stuffy and cloddish, the heater, the padded chairs, the bed piled with furs, the rugs, drapes, wrappings, mufflings.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

It might be easy to consider the Cruising Pavilion a bit of architectural spit-balling — a subject intended to poke fun at the stuffier projects in the sanctioned exhibits at the Biennale across the canal.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2018

But the friendly locals, live music most Friday nights and tasty burgers make it a refreshing reprieve from Manchester’s stuffier establishments.

From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2014

He had found most of the runs closer and stuffier than he was used to, no doubt because there were so few holes into the open air.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

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