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  • adjective superlative form of stuffy: most stuffy.

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Examples

  • She was so comfortable in the company of the Queen, and under the stuffiest of circumstances, that she felt free to be herself—even if it meant giggling at centuries-old tradition.

    William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

  • Thai tom yum is just what the doctor ordered, being both hot and searingly aromatic enough to cut through even the stuffiest of winter colds.

    How to cook perfect tom yum soup 2012

  • She credited her incredible ad-libbing skills to the years she spent attending embassy cocktail parties with Paul, where she learned to disarm the stuffiest foreign diplomats with her down-to-earth American humor and entertaining anecdotes.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • She credited her incredible ad-libbing skills to the years she spent attending embassy cocktail parties with Paul, where she learned to disarm the stuffiest foreign diplomats with her down-to-earth American humor and entertaining anecdotes.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • She was so comfortable in the company of the Queen, and under the stuffiest of circumstances, that she felt free to be herself—even if it meant giggling at centuries-old tradition.

    William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

  • Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL) shared a moment of sheer absurdity with Britain's stuffiest global warming denier Lord Christopher Monckton in last week's Energy & Commerce hearing on climate change adaptation.

    Kevin Grandia: The Republican's Global Warming Amateur Hour 2009

  • But how could even the stuffiest members of the nobility hold out against a beautiful young woman who let it be known that she preferred milk to wine, who took pride in telling journalists that an admired new blouse had cost her the equivalent of three dollars, and who, a full six months after her wedding, proudly exhibited her first use of a coronet, on the corner of a doll-sized handkerchief?

    Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

  • The result is a fusion of commerce and art (it already has an advance sale of nearly $20 million) sure to delight all but the stuffiest theater intellectuals, who will no doubt accuse Taymor of selling out.

    A Magic Kingdom 2008

  • It doesn't sound like a cheerful topic, and I don't suppose that is is, but it's a beautiful story beautifully told by young men in the starchiest and stuffiest school uniforms who whip out handheld microphones to sing their innermost thoughts, and the young women in long dresses who find something stirring but know not what.

    Theatricality The Brillig Blogger 2008

  • It doesn't sound like a cheerful topic, and I don't suppose that is is, but it's a beautiful story beautifully told by young men in the starchiest and stuffiest school uniforms who whip out handheld microphones to sing their innermost thoughts, and the young women in long dresses who find something stirring but know not what.

    Archive 2008-12-01 The Brillig Blogger 2008

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