stuffed shirt

noun

Definition of stuffed shirt

: 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

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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. — Katie Walsh, Detroit Free Press, "Review: ‘Sicario’ sequel is relentlessly grim," 28 June 2018

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