stuffy
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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
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 logic behind it is firmly rooted in 19th-century London; back then, the city’s financial elite would regularly escape their stuffy urban environs during the summer months.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 29, 2026
When it was founded in Aberdeenshire the firm portrayed itself as a rebellious challenger to a UK brewing industry it regarded as stuffy and corporate.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026
Her gaze drifts out the window, and they lapse back into that stuffy silence that makes Scoob itchy all over.
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
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