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Definition of stuffed shirt in English: stuffed shirtnoun informal A conservative, pompous person. 〈非正式〉保守且妄自尊大的人 I just want it to be for fun people, not stuffed shirts Example sentencesExamples - There are a lot of stuffed shirts out there who would never publicly admit to making an error.
- At this point Hemmer (a stuffed shirt if I ever saw one) got this grin on his face and asked Cliff if he'd read the Wall Street Journal this morning.
- Perhaps they have Personality Parties on the weekend, where they let it all hang out, and then button their stuffed shirts up for the week ahead, and I just haven't been invited to these parties.
- Elle's sunny optimism and fashion sense among the sober stuffed shirts of Washington is cute.
- By adding more jocularity, which has included Miles prank-calling Gooden on road trips, Kansas has become a team that is less of a stuffed shirt.
- The next year, by way of riposte to the stuffed shirts, Havers achieved fame by qualifying for the Open Championship at the age of 16.
- She sized him up in a minute and a half and told me he was a stuffed shirt and a pretentious snob.
- Thus commences a nightlong battle of the sexes, with Woo trying to loosen up the stuffed shirt and Tim trying to tame this female firestorm.
- I really really really can't understand why, way back in the early 80s, stuffed shirts somehow portrayed that pop group as the end of music.
- Some of the stuffed shirts at the Commission might be expected to look askance at this sort of harmless nepotism.
- Where are all these stuffed shirt, right-wing conservatives coming from?
- The elder must be respectable - not a sourpuss or a stuffed shirt - but a man who has gained respect.
- With reference to the story ‘Councillors Oppose Farmer's Housing Plan ’, Holtby parish councillors should take off their stuffed shirts and give this guy a chance.
- So we had this big meeting with some of these executives around a conference table, and talk about your stuffed shirts.
- He portrayed that stuffed shirt of a husband seems to be a frightfully correct pillar of the new establishment.
- The film was about a rebel battling against the stuffed shirts, and that's me.
- What do those stuffed shirts who read the Wall Street Journal wear on casual Fridays?
- I anticipate that any number of stuffed shirts in London will back me up on these conclusions.
- Good for Radio 4 doing a second series after all the stuffed shirts complained about their first one because of their irreverent and unstuffy presentation.
- The image, rightly or wrongly, is of stuffed shirts dining on caviar and champagne before snoozing in a private box as two overweight ageing juveniles make mad, passionate musical love to each other.
Synonyms conventionalist, traditionalist, orthodox person, conservative, bourgeois, fogey, old fogey, stickler, formalist, diehard, reactionary
Definition of stuffed shirt in US English: stuffed shirtnounˈstəft ˌʃərtˈstəft ˌSHərt informal A conservative, pompous person. 〈非正式〉保守且妄自尊大的人 I just want it to be for fun people, not stuffed shirts Example sentencesExamples - I anticipate that any number of stuffed shirts in London will back me up on these conclusions.
- Elle's sunny optimism and fashion sense among the sober stuffed shirts of Washington is cute.
- What do those stuffed shirts who read the Wall Street Journal wear on casual Fridays?
- So we had this big meeting with some of these executives around a conference table, and talk about your stuffed shirts.
- She sized him up in a minute and a half and told me he was a stuffed shirt and a pretentious snob.
- Where are all these stuffed shirt, right-wing conservatives coming from?
- Good for Radio 4 doing a second series after all the stuffed shirts complained about their first one because of their irreverent and unstuffy presentation.
- The image, rightly or wrongly, is of stuffed shirts dining on caviar and champagne before snoozing in a private box as two overweight ageing juveniles make mad, passionate musical love to each other.
- Thus commences a nightlong battle of the sexes, with Woo trying to loosen up the stuffed shirt and Tim trying to tame this female firestorm.
- With reference to the story ‘Councillors Oppose Farmer's Housing Plan ’, Holtby parish councillors should take off their stuffed shirts and give this guy a chance.
- He portrayed that stuffed shirt of a husband seems to be a frightfully correct pillar of the new establishment.
- Perhaps they have Personality Parties on the weekend, where they let it all hang out, and then button their stuffed shirts up for the week ahead, and I just haven't been invited to these parties.
- Some of the stuffed shirts at the Commission might be expected to look askance at this sort of harmless nepotism.
- I really really really can't understand why, way back in the early 80s, stuffed shirts somehow portrayed that pop group as the end of music.
- The elder must be respectable - not a sourpuss or a stuffed shirt - but a man who has gained respect.
- At this point Hemmer (a stuffed shirt if I ever saw one) got this grin on his face and asked Cliff if he'd read the Wall Street Journal this morning.
- The film was about a rebel battling against the stuffed shirts, and that's me.
- The next year, by way of riposte to the stuffed shirts, Havers achieved fame by qualifying for the Open Championship at the age of 16.
- By adding more jocularity, which has included Miles prank-calling Gooden on road trips, Kansas has become a team that is less of a stuffed shirt.
- There are a lot of stuffed shirts out there who would never publicly admit to making an error.
Synonyms conventionalist, traditionalist, orthodox person, conservative, bourgeois, fogey, old fogey, stickler, formalist, diehard, reactionary
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