stuffy
IPA: stˈʌfi
noun
- (US, Canada, colloquial, often childish) Synonym of stuffed toy
adjective
- Poorly ventilated; partially plugged.
- Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
- (US) Angry and obstinate; sulky.
- Boring, uninteresting, over-formal, pompous, very conventional.
- (Scotland) Stout; sturdy.
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Examples of "stuffy" in Sentences
- A stuffy is a baby crocodile mounted by a taxidermist to be sold as a souvenir.
- Mr. Guccione stressed to advertisers that Penthouse was not for pipe smokers in stuffy robes.
- While other college students are in stuffy classrooms, about a dozen are earning credit tending a Vermont farm.
- He was dedicated to reinvigorating an institution that the Guardian newspaper once described as stuffy and uninspired, “a bastion of sluggishness.”
- Here she was shut up in her bedroom, which was stuffy from the afternoon sun that had been pouring into it, instead of out in the cool garden, and all because of Mr. Briggs.
- This net work will show what it ` s viewers want to see African Americans clubbing it up, not in stuffy dances at round tables but in rowdy bars and questionable venues like an after game NBA Allstar Party.
- i think it would be great for people who work in stuffy factories. but i personally would never wear one in public. by the way, they cost about 100 dollars. which is pretty pricey … or not, for keeping cool.
- But even this conservative - some would call it 'stuffy' - city (where men dress like insurance adjusters, according to GQ) has been dragged kicking and screaming into the Internet Age in which one's influence depends very much on the ability to produce information, manipulate symbols, construct narratives and leverage ideas.
- I am a highly educated, successful career woman who finally realized that we women are getting ripped off by the current culture and the educational establishment who is brainwashing us into a life of hectic, unfulfilling work in stuffy cubicles working long, stressful hours to earn enough so that we can "relax" on a beach somewhere.
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