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Superlative for muggy, stuffy, with bad ventilation
“In a crowded, stuffy room, overhead fans strained to circulate the inert air.”
Superlative for blocked up or congested, especially of a person's nose
“When you've got a stuffy nose, you put some hot water and a couple of drops of the medicine that comes with it into the inhaler.”
Superlative for overly formal, conventional, or prim and proper
“The event could bring a breath of fresh, country air into the stuffy world of British politics.”
Superlative for boring or severely lacking in interest
“Timmy and Margery mounted the steps reluctantly, indicating that they thought a stuffy old museum was dismal indeed.”
Superlative for having a tendency to be easily annoyed or angered
“She seemed to be such a wonderfully cheerful, sweet woman, unlike her father's stuffy staff of servants.”
Superlative for affectedly proper, or formal, and rather prudish
Superlative for very hot and dry
Superlative for insular in one's views, opinions or outlook
Superlative for not friendly or sociable
Superlative for strict or exacting in standards
Superlative for having or showing an excessive pride in oneself or one's achievements
Superlative for fastidious and hard to please
Superlative for behaving as though one is more important than others
Superlative for not offering, involving, or eager for new or stimulating things
Superlative for vehement or impassioned in expression, sometimes pretentiously so
Superlative for swollen with fluid or gas
Superlative for making a show of being morally better than others, especially hypocritically
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