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stuffed shirt

noun as in bore

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He had been herded into a corner by Johnson, Aunt Gretchen's stuffed shirt of a butler, who was standing guard over him.

Nayland is a stuffed shirt of the first stuffing, and a tinpot Hitler to boot, but he is fanatically and incorruptibly patriotic.

I'm tired of all that other crowd—the stuffed shirt brigade, you know.

He characterized Frank Shabata by a Bohemian expression which is the equivalent of stuffed shirt.

He turned to the crowd, which looked on in stunned silence, and tucked in his money-stuffed shirt.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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