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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

There's nothing worse than putting a child to sleep in a stuffy bedroom when you're already sweating.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

Her son’s new friends had been forced to leave everything behind, so now, it was important to let them pick any stuffy they wanted from the neighbors’ toy drive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

A few weeks ago, my Oura flagged “major signs of strain”—24 hours before I felt a sore throat and a stuffy nose.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

The room was warm and stuffy, so I walked out to cool off and to get a drink of water.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez

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 feeling that writers were taking on the topics nobody else wanted to touch—stuff readers would never see in stuffier, more traditional outlets—was the source of Gawker’s popularity and, ultimately, its undoing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2016

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