as in stuffed shirt
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Noun
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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,
NBC News,
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,
The Economist,
25 Feb. 2020
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Location The Connaught curves around the corner of Carlos Place just off Berkeley square, in the chi chi enclave of Mayfair Village, cheek by jowl with London’s nicest restaurants and shops.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
3 June 2026
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The Scotland fans had congregated in the old town square, so when the area’s bars ran out of alcohol, the riot police arrived expecting trouble.—
Jordan Campbell,
New York Times,
3 June 2026
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“Standpatter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/standpatter. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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