Example Sentences

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“As you can hear, I’m getting through it,” she says slightly stuffily on a recent afternoon amid what she calls the “organized chaos” of her art-filled Encino home.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2025

If you think that sounds pretentious or dull or somehow stuffily historical, you have clearly never been placed under the spell of Céline Sciamma.

From Slate • Dec. 6, 2019

But the show is not stuffily highbrow: there are cameo appearances by Pat Cleveland, David Bowie and Divine.

From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2014

We stuffily opted for "difficult" and tried, desperately, to keep the bamboozledom off our faces over the next hour.

From The Guardian • Aug. 20, 2010

In writing he presented himself formally, even a bit stuffily, but he dressed for the beach.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis