Example Sentences

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This too may be characteristic of a Dame, although pairing that with her unstuffy humor and refreshingly proletarian quick wit engendered in us a familiarity.

From Salon • Oct. 1, 2024

A combination of scholarship, newly illuminating performances, the rediscovery of neglected works and an unstuffy rage for eclecticism in our current musical culture has now made Saint-Saëns not just palatable but prescient.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2022

It is both elegant and unstuffy, and its fidelity to seafood — both from the Adriatic and the lagoon — is total.

From New York Times • May 16, 2017

The subtext was clear: “I’m so chill and so unstuffy that I just picked this thing up at the same place I buy my jeans and T-shirts.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 14, 2016

“Why can’t a woman who happens to have an accent but who is unstuffy and witty and knowledgeable and smart – why can’t someone like this hold together an arts programme?”

From The Guardian • Oct. 24, 2014