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as in boring
causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest nothing stuffy about this science museum—it's all interactive and fun

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Recent Examples of stuffy And his love of golf is helping to break barriers, with rappers like 2 Chainz and Offset among the celebrities following Khaled’s lead and getting more involved in the historically stuffy, white pastime. Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2023 Timberland somehow combines street-style sensibility with hiking performance features like mesh linings and OrthoLite footbeds for a full-grain leather boot that wouldn’t look out of place in even the stuffiest office. Graham Averill, Outside Online, 13 Apr. 2023 That’s the thing about linen—even the dressiest pieces never look stuffy; there is something inherently casual about them. Chadner Navarro, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 July 2023 The adjustable flaps on the rainfly allowed for extra airflow, which is necessary during the summer months or early in the morning when the rising sun makes things stuffy. Olivia Avitt, Peoplemag, 24 May 2023 See all Example Sentences for stuffy 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stuffy
Adjective
  • Ballot recounts are scheduled Tuesday for two close Ramsey County races.
    Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 16 Nov. 2024
  • China demonstrated its pull on the world stage by welcoming a delegation from Saudi Arabia with its first pavilion at the event, as well as its close ties with Russia even as that country is isolated from Western nations and their allies due to its invasion of Ukraine.
    Reuters, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Most of this long flashback segment is pretty boring, though.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2024
  • Toyota and Honda have at times been called boring: Honda by its own engineers, Toyota more famously by a chairman descended from the company’s founder.
    Robert Ferris, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • People with anxiety may also feel irritable, tense, or restless, and may have a sense of impending danger, panic, or doom.
    Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Max was admitted to the hospital after experiencing severe pain in July and was diagnosed with transient synovitis, a condition also referred to as irritable hip.
    Marina Watts, Peoplemag, 4 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • Similarly, listening as a member of a large audience or having to listen for a long time was also tiring.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Working while speaking was more annoying but less tiring than silence and noise.
    Dominique Fluker, Essence, 15 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Midway through the first episode of Say Nothing, Dolours Price encounters a fiery scene in West Belfast: a mob of Northern Irish citizens chucking petrol bombs at a police barracks.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Miller, 39, is a former Capitol Hill staffer who rose to prominence as a fiery Trump speechwriter and key architect of his immigration policies from 2017 to 2021.
    Elliot Spagat, The Denver Post, 12 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • What might feel supportive to one person could feel suffocating or unhelpful to another.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The goaltender finished with a career-high 19 saves, anchoring a suffocating defensive unit.
    Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 5 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • For her debut spring 2025 collection, Waksal worked with lightweight and fluid materials in neutral tones (black, ivory, dusty gray, bone, army green and white) across mix-and-match styles that can easily move and be layered.
    Emily Mercer, WWD, 20 Nov. 2024
  • While the bride was in the bathroom, the mother-in-law showed the groom-to-be the two dresses — the dusty pink bridesmaid dress and the darker dress — and asked him to pick which one looks best.
    Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 18 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Moore sprinted down the field in celebration of his game-saving play with 29 seconds left that gave UCLA an unexpectedly breathless 27-20 victory.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Jerry Coyne has a post up which critiques an extremely breathless review of a new book, Epigenetics Revolution.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 Aug. 2011

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“Stuffy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stuffy. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.

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