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as in boring
causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest nothing stuffy about this science museum—it's all interactive and fun

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Recent Examples of stuffy This is not your stuffy and staid luxury hotel; the clientele at the Villa Magna was noticeably stylish, sophisticated, and attractive. Erica Wertheim Zohar, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025 Off-Beat Moments Despite being a traditional decorating style that translates well to formality and grandeur, modern English style is not stuffy. Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Aug. 2025 Thanks to open-cell technology, air flows easily through the material to prevent you from getting hot and stuffy while sleeping. Shea Simmons, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025 David Ketchum, the goofy comic actor and prolific TV writer best known for squeezing into such stuffy spaces as vending machines, trash cans and airport lockers as Agent 13 on the fabled sitcom Get Smart, has died. Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 22 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stuffy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stuffy
Adjective
  • He was acquired, along with closer Victor Vodnik, in a July 2023 trade with the Braves for reliever Pierce Johnson.
    Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 17 Sep. 2025
  • In the last fortnight alone, Starmer's Deputy Prime Minister and close ally Angela Rayner has resigned after a house tax scandal, triggering a major cabinet reshuffle.
    Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Farming takes so long and is so boring, some of us said.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The Clark County Fire Department said that tunnel boring operations had been temporarily halted at the site pending an ongoing accident investigation.
    Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • He was adopted two weeks later, but after 18 months in his home, Scoob developed a painful skin condition that caused his ears to bleed and left him extremely irritable.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Instead, Helen is allowed to be irritable and anti-social, chain-smoking and snappish, without the filmmaker casting judgment.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Without a strict hierarchy or single decision-maker, our process can sometimes be slow, messy, or even tiring.
    Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The film is a mess, opaque in its argument and tiring in its effortful weirdness, and yet in its best moments has a hypnotic pull.
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • And as the Minnesota Vikings and Chicago Bears face off, on September 8th, to kick off the new season, fans can expect a soundtrack that’s as fiery as her nails.
    Larry Stansbury, Essence, 11 Sep. 2025
  • But while Christy flaunts a fiery persona in the ring, her toughest battles unfold outside it — confronting family, identity, and a relationship that just might become life or death.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The suffocating Benz pushed the lifelong asthmatic to the edge.
    Sam Bloch August 8, Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
  • And with the team operating under the suffocating grip of new CBA, every dollar must work overtime.
    Brian Sampson, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
Adjective
  • With Onum folded into Falcon, logs stop being dusty records and start becoming live intelligence.
    Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • There, water to sustain such a colony may be trapped less than a foot beneath the dusty red surface.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • And as Brown’s book races toward its elaborate climax, his (and Langdon’s) breathless effusions about the neuro-technological progress that awaits us sound jarringly out of sync with the anxious, doomy present.
    Book Marks September 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Almost four and a half hours later, the couple woke up to a breathless little boy.
    Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025

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“Stuffy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stuffy. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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