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Stuffy

adjective

Lacking fresh air. Synonyms: airless, close, unaired. "The dreadfully close atmosphere" , "Hot and stuffy and the air was blue with smoke"

Excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull. Synonym: stodgy. "A stodgy dinner party"

Affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction.

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"Stuffy" Quotes from Famous Books

... seeing and understanding; beauty such as this is its own interpreter. Surely such a glimpse of nature as we are now enjoying does people more good than a hundred prayer-meetings in a stuffy chapel." ...

— The Farringdons • Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler

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... the others were daughters, daughters-in-law and concubines. The latter word evokes to occidental ears images of sensual seduction which the Moroccan harem seldom realizes. All the ladies of this dignified official household wore the same look of somewhat melancholy respectability. In their stuffy curtained apartment they were like cellar-grown flowers, pale, heavy, fuller but frailer than the garden sort. Their dresses, rich but sober, the veils and diadems put on in honour of my visit, had a dignified dowdiness in odd contrast to the frivolity ...

— In Morocco • Edith Wharton

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... the house to which she is going; I owe that small service to the child of her parent.... Dear Harriet, if you will come to Switzerland this summer, nothing but some insuperable impediment shall prevent my meeting you there. If you are "old and stiff," I am fat, stuffy, puffy, and old; and you are not of such proportions as to break a mule's back, whereas if I got on one I should expect it to cast itself and me down the first convenient precipice, only to avoid carrying me ...

— Records of Later Life • Frances Anne Kemble

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... painful crisis is to insist very much that it is a crisis; to permit people who must feel sad at least to feel important. In this the poor are simply the priests of the universal civilization; and in their stuffy feasts and solemn chattering there is the smell of the baked meats of Hamlet and the dust and echo of ...

— What's Wrong With The World • G.K. Chesterton

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... indoors, into the rather stuffy, overcrowded living-room, that was too cosy and too warm. The son followed last, standing in the doorway. The father talked to me. Maggie put out the tea-cups. The mother went into ...

— Wintry Peacock - From "The New Decameron", Volume III. • D. H. Lawrence

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