STUFFED SHIRTS Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

stuffed shirts

noun

plural of stuffed shirt

as in conservatives

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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Once a lawyerly panel, a takeover by a trio of conservatives deeply mistrustful of the state’s voting system has turned the board’s once mundane meetings into boisterous events packed with crowds of cheering and jeering activists.

— Tamar Hallerman, AJC.com, 3 Aug. 2026
But some prominent conservatives in recent years have called for its elimination, saying the federal government should get out of the education business at every level.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026

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Many members are military veterans, making that mission personal.

— Erin Jones, CBS News, 31 July 2026
Congress granted veterans who served at the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune an exception because of severe groundwater contamination that sickened thousands of veterans and their families who served and lived on the base between 1953 and 1987.

— Nicole Borman, Miami Herald, 30 July 2026

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Dinosaurs roamed the Earth for about 180 million years, but only a few thousand near-complete fossils have been discovered.

— Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
Lambert, who grew up searching for fossils in England, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) that a squirrel happened to draw his attention toward the rock near a riverbank.

— Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 25 July 2026

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