stuffy
adjective
close; poorly ventilated.
stuffily
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a word derived from
stuffy.
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
