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Meanings of stuffed shirt in English

Fuddy-duddy.

Usage of stuffed shirt in English
1
Neither let the pomp of office turn them into a stuffed shirt.
The Guardian
2
She'd imagined that he would be a pompous, old, self-important stuffed shirt.
Mcgillivray's mistress
3
A conventional chap-bit of a stuffed shirt-not Miller's kind at all.
Agahta christie: an autobiography
4
Kind of a stuffed shirt, to tell you the truth.
The manning grooms: bride on the loose\same time, next year
5
He characterized Frank Shabata by a Bohemian expression which is the equivalent of stuffed shirt.
O Pioneers!
6
He's a stuffed shirt if there ever was one.
White Ashes
7
Twitch, you're a pompous old faker, a stuffed shirt.
The Door Into Summer
8
And, oh, what a stuffed shirt he was, he'd replied as though she'd been completely serious.
East of the sun
9
Badoglio became a trusted and effective deputy, not a stuffed shirt as General Porro had been.
The white war: life and death on the italian front 1915-1919
10
The first time I talked to him, I thought, 'What a good-looking guy-but what a stuffed shirt.'
Death Mask
11
A bit of a stuffed shirt at first, but he's loosened up some in just two days.
The Sails of Tau Ceti
12
I was going to prove to that insufferable stuffed shirt that Grogan's Majestic Marley of Churchill was no quitter.
Marley & me: life and love with the world's worst dog
13
He hated Harry Quebert, who was supposedly a great writer but seemed more like a great stuffed shirt to him.
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
14
She peered back over her shoulder and said, "But if you're implying he's a stuffed shirt, he's not."
Private Sector
15
For the longest time, Keller shut me out, treating me like the unimaginative, by-the-book stuffed shirt I was afraid I really was.
Back on murder
16
Of himself Carr was the 'toom tabard' of earlier parlance in his native country, the ' stuffed shirt' of a later and more remote generation.
She Stands Accused
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