stuffier
- comparative of stuffy.
Example Sentences
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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
In which case I’d resort to a calmer, stuffier word, like “major.”
From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2022
It might be easy to consider the Cruising Pavilion a bit of architectural spit-balling — a subject intended to poke fun at the stuffier projects in the sanctioned exhibits at the Biennale across the canal.
From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2018
A thick blanket of dust covers the stairs, and it gets stuffier the farther down we go.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
