stuffy
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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
Among legacy networks, NBC was already the best match for Netflix—less stuffy than CBS News, less adventurous and jazzy than ABC News, at least by the images the three news divisions cultivated in their heyday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 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
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
Even though part of me knows that fresh air is better than a hot, stuffy cell, I wish I were back there.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
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
In 1975, presaging a flood of Hollywood remakes, Edwards and Sellers revived their creation in “The Return of the Pink Panther,” with Clouseau now older and stuffier, and his accent even more garbled.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2017
He addressed all the secretaries by name and got along with everyone—from the older, stuffier lawyers to the ambitious young bucks who were now playing basketball.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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
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