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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Japanese people, largely conservatives who are fans of Aiko or oppose the male-line succession, have taken to the streets in recent weeks and their movement is growing.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
There was a time when conservatives were opposed to increasing the debt.

— Kevin Igoe, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026

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After waiting and learning behind veterans such as James and Anthony Davis, Reaves is now an undisputed top-two player on the Lakers.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
The catastrophic exit from Afghanistan was devastating to many veterans who had served there.

— Azadeh Moaveni, Vanity Fair, 20 Oct. 2026

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To do this, the team of researchers used fossils and knowledge of mosasaurs' most recent living relatives – snakes and lizards like the komodo dragon – to recreate the hunting behavior of mosasaurs.

— October 16, NPR, 16 Oct. 2026
The discovery provides a detailed view into how the dinosaur’s body responded to injury before its death and demonstrates how neutron imaging can reveal soft tissues that are rarely preserved in fossils.

— Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of fossils

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