Definition of stuffed shirt
: a smug, conceited, and usually pompous person often with an inflexibly conservative or reactionary attitude
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Examples of stuffed shirt in a Sentence
the stuffed shirts in this organization don't seem to realize that without new blood our extinction is inevitable
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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.
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First Known Use of stuffed shirt
1904
stuffed shirt Synonyms
Synonyms
antediluvian, fogy (also fogey), fossil, fuddy-duddy, reactionary, stick-in-the-mud;
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STUFFED SHIRT Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of stuffed shirt for English Language Learners
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: a person who behaves in a very formal way and expects to be treated as someone very important
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