STUFFED SHIRT Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

stuffed shirt

noun

as in conservative

a person with old-fashioned ideas the stuffed shirts in this organization don't seem to realize that without new blood our extinction is inevitable

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Recent Examples of stuffed shirt 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, 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, 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, 28 June 2018

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The House failed to pass a measure that would propose amending the Constitution to require the federal government to have a balanced budget, a measure offered by conservatives to address the ever-increasing national debt.

— Zach Halaschak, The Washington Examiner, 18 Mar. 2026
Some conservatives who advocate for immigration restriction have argued that the left should learn from his immigration positions.

— Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 18 Mar. 2026