stuffed shirt

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: a smug, conceited, and usually pompous person often with an inflexibly conservative or reactionary attitude

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the stuffed shirts in this organization don't seem to realize that without new blood our extinction is inevitable

Recent Examples on the Web With his piano-pounding performances, wild vocals, bouffant hair and makeup, Little Richard burst onto the musical scene in the 1950s and shook up the stuffed shirts with a string of his hit songs that got both black and white people dancing. — NBC News, "Little Richard, piano-pounding music icon, dies at 87," 9 May 2020 Karen Knorr’s photos of the private members’ clubs of London in the early 1980s are full of stuffed shirts wearing gleaming brogues. — The Economist, "Denizens of Mars What does it mean to be “manly”?," 25 Feb. 2020 For this case, he has been contracted by a bunch of white-haired stuffed shirts with medals on their chests to find anyone who enabled the Kansas City suicide bombers, who crossed into the United States via the Mexican border. — Katie Walsh, Detroit Free Press, "Review: ‘Sicario’ sequel is relentlessly grim," 28 June 2018

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“Stuffed shirt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stuffed%20shirt. Accessed 17 Apr. 2021.

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