stuffy
Example Sentences
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“There’s a reputation that museums, and particularly art museums, have of being kind of stuffy or like elitist or something like that, which is not something that I personally agree with,” says Critchley.
“This doesn’t have to be a stuffy, fourth-wall drama,” says Michael Fell, the show’s creative director.
From Los Angeles Times
They played in stuffy venues in front of moshing teens—singers often passing the mic around for fans to join in.
His sunsum jumbles my thoughts and makes the room stuffy with power.
From Literature
But the nursery felt stuffy all at once, without the wonderful summer breeze that had been making the curtains billow and dance all morning.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.