How To Use Stuffy In A Sentence

Mrs. Dudgeon unbars the door and opens it, letting into the stuffy kitchen a little of the freshness and a great deal of the chill of the dawn, also her second son Christy, a fattish, stupid, fair-haired, round-faced man of about 22, muffled in a plaid shawl and grey overcoat. The Devil's Disciple
This net work will show what it ` s viewers want to see African Americans clubbing it up, not in stuffy dances at round tables but in rowdy bars and questionable venues like an after game NBA Allstar Party. Democratic Convention, Yes. Republicans, Not So Much - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
I am a highly educated, successful career woman who finally realized that we women are getting ripped off by the current culture and the educational establishment who is brainwashing us into a life of hectic, unfulfilling work in stuffy cubicles working long, stressful hours to earn enough so that we can "relax" on a beach somewhere. Get in on Life...
Sir William had the ability to conduct proceedings in a dignified manner without ever becoming stuffy.
The subway froze in its tracks, and thousands of people found themselves trapped in stuffy box cars and pitch-dark tunnels.

Is this another stuffy book by a disconnected reggae academic?
But my stuffy academic friends each have their own store of knowledge.
Maybe it's a bit like having a stuffy, old law prof, who seems nowhere near as exciting as the younger, livelier profs, but somewhere along the line, you just start appreciating him.
By contrast the house was stuffy and airless and I repaired to my garden chair, Dolly and Harry following on behind.
He thought she was the petulant rock star and she thought he was this stuffy old luvvie. Times, Sunday Times
Were it not for the defensive deficiencies, the first-half impression that Stuttgart were no more than a well-muscled, stuffy side might have continued unrevised beyond the interval.
If you just have a stuffy nose or sore throat, you have the green light to work out, although you may want to avoid the gym out of consideration for others.
Now this smart restaurant is decidedly unstuffy yet with sophisticated tasting menus. Times, Sunday Times
Stuffy" -- though one was tempted to think that he shared his fruit not so much from choice but rather because he disliked the hard work that was sure to follow a refusal of the pressing invitation to "go halvers. Their Yesterdays
New England in the 19th century was the apex of conformity: staid, stuffy and abstemious.
The atmosphere in the room was so stuffy I could hardly breathe.
She's quick on her feet, she knows who So Solid Crew are and she's very unstuffy.
Their wedding was stuffy and formal.
It sounded a little dry for my liking — I was kind of imagining the sort of intellectualist discourse that made the Mundane SF movement sound awfully stuffy, with their pshawing at pulp “follies”. Ethics and Enthusiasm
i think it would be great for people who work in stuffy factories. but i personally would never wear one in public. by the way, they cost about 100 dollars. which is pretty pricey … or not, for keeping cool. Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » USB Air Conditioned Shirt
The Countryside Party could bring a breath of fresh, country air into the stuffy world of British politics.
Since the room was stuffy and muggy without the air conditioner running all the time, just turning the thing off wasn't an option.
German renaissance drawings are often enchantingly unstuffy, and frequently treat subjects that would never have been painted.
Very stuffy nose + scratchy raw throat + epiglottal snot goblins. Odin's Day
Such a get-up might de-throne me once and for all, or at the very least earn a few "graceless" points with the neighbor who thinks I'm so stuffy, so reine-like. French Word-A-Day:
It is a fellow wine-lover who enthusiastically wants you to try something they have found, rather than a supercilious guardian of stuffy good taste.
Do a puzzle in another room in dim light to help you doze Open a window in a hot, stuffy bedroom. The Sun
Kelvin didn't talk to those whom he shared this stuffy room with, neither did they talk much to him.
The new arrival with an irreverent approach to the stuffy conventions and personnel of Parliament made an immediate impression.
While other college students are in stuffy classrooms, about a dozen are earning credit tending a Vermont farm. Students dig into sustainable farming at Vermont college
Although expected, the stench of mothballs nearly knocked us all senseless as we entered the small, stuffy hall which only grew smaller as we all piled in with our bags.
After all, there could be no surer way of denting Halifax's accessible and unstuffy image.
The cigarette dangled from the corner of her red-smudged lips, its burnt and ashy tip sending up thin trails of smoke into the already stuffy air.
But this is no stuffy lecture on the current socio-political climate of the region. Times, Sunday Times
As the Steelers and Jets met in the AFC Championship game Sunday night, they did it behind two men who shucked staid and stuffy forever ago — if they ever actually exhibited either trait. Steelers' Tomlin Part of NFL's New Breed
It was stuffy and confined, muggy and stagnant, thick and oppressive.
It gets very hot and stuffy in here in summer.
Forget stuffy formality; this restored village offers guests a taste of authentic Tuscany with added comforts. Times, Sunday Times
Staff are chatty, well-intentioned and deliberately unstuffy which all adds to the charm and there's also an acceptable mini wine list for wine buffs (as opposed to beer fans) which is very sensibly priced.
There's a tremendous sense of unstuffy celebration of art in that building.
The arrangement of the Frascati is a novelty; it is all so open and, though there are plenty of staffers about, not in the least stuffy. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 3, 1892
She was standing in a hot, stuffy shop waiting to pay. The Sun
She was in what appeared to be a darkened room of some sort; a small, stuffy room full of grey, dusty objects.
Here she was shut up in her bedroom, which was stuffy from the afternoon sun that had been pouring into it, instead of out in the cool garden, and all because of Mr. Briggs. The Enchanted April
The point of using the classics in this kind of playful reverence is that I always felt the classics had become stuffy through being academized-is that what the word is? Jasper Fforde biography
There's costumes and courtliness, but this 16th-century saga remains unstuffy. This week's new films
In a stuffy room deep in the bowels of the Stade de France, the 100m and 200m champion was seated in front of 250 journalists, trying to convince them that she deserved to hang on to her gold medals.
Ask him to tell you about his toys and it is even easier to believe he really is in this business for the sheer joy of doing what he does best - breaking new frontiers in the stuffy world of insurance.
He was unstuffy, with an irrepressible sense of humour and fun. Times, Sunday Times
Symptoms include a blocked, stuffy nose, headache and a sore throat. Times, Sunday Times
The powerful arc lights had made the small space quite hot and stuffy. A Channel of Peace
His half day off was invariably spent tinkering about the stuffy little flat -- painting, nailing up shelves, mending a broken window shade, puttying a window, playing with his pasty little boy, aged sixteen months, and his pasty little girl, aged three years. Gigolo
Young people are kept in small, stuffy rooms with no natural light for hours after arriving or while they await removal from the country. Times, Sunday Times
In the stuffy room, its walls lined with fussy little ornaments, but no photos of family or friends, I nestled into my brother and promptly fell asleep as only a child can do.
He is learned, but neither stuffy nor pedantic.
Yes, it is smart without being stuffy and the helpful staff only add to the relaxing feel. The Sun
We need some fresh air in this stuffy room!
The building was stuffy, unmercifully hot, electricity shut off, windows battened down. THE SERPENT'S MARK
So curing your problem means clearing that stuffy nose. The Sun
a stuffy feeling in my chest
It was the Mojave; it wasn't pretty, but it was hot and the car was stuffy, yet he felt cold. THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
Do a puzzle in another room in dim light to help you doze Open a window in a hot, stuffy bedroom. The Sun
The most violent sequence in the film has him interrogating one of the kidnappers in a stuffy car.
Nancy finished what she termed furnishing: out went the horsehair, the hideous chandeliers, the stuffy books, the Recamier statuary, and an army of upholsterers, wood-workers, etc., from Boston and New York invaded the place. Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
Honestly, nothing but a group of old, stuffy men gathering to talk about things they talk about every other day of the year.
It shamed Ruth to think of what he would see: a small, stuffy cottage, made even smaller by her three boys.
As we gathered speed out of Mazatlan, the empty window frames offered a cooling breeze through the stuffy carriage, and I started to take stock of the characters travelling around us.
Wednesday, from the stuffy chambers of the U.S. bankruptcy court to the stark aerie of a Manhattan law firm, the auction for video-store chain Blockbuster Inc. at times became like a "cage match," said one person who was there. OK, So Who Stole My Pizza?
His unstuffy manner has also gained him increasing respect in a German business world desperate to modernise beyond its engineering and banking base.
Yes, it is smart without being stuffy and the helpful staff only add to the relaxing feel. The Sun
Kitchen gardeners are very often thought of as stuffy people, patiently planting seeds into precise rows and endlessly digging.
They can send the laundry out, they can order food in … but even the airiest apartments turn stuffy after a while. Spitzer in Exile
But trying to sleep in a stuffy bedroom can seriously impair sleep quality. Times, Sunday Times
So hats off to the fatberg - a breath of not-so-fresh air in the frequently stuffy world of museology. Times, Sunday Times
We lay up in the stuffy, sweltering heat of the wood all afternoon, listening to the incessant thunder of the cannonading; one consolation was the regular crash of the artillery salvoes, which indicated that Wheeler's gunners were making good practice, and must still be well stocked with powder and shot. Fiancée
He thought she was the petulant rock star and she thought he was this stuffy old luvvie. Times, Sunday Times
Do a puzzle in another room in dim light to help you doze Open a window in a hot, stuffy bedroom. The Sun
REMEMBER when a bank was a shabby grey building and the only person giving advice was a real bank manager in a stuffy office? The Sun
He was well known for his unstuffy approach and informality, which was reflected in the funeral arrangements.
The filmmakers' desire to create an unstuffy, modern version of the Renaissance monarch merely turns him into a boorish, violent plug-ugly.
Lloyd's big problem is that he has a stuffy nose.
I wish this office wasn't so stuffy and airless.
After a cold dinner of egg sandwiches by candlelight we turned in early to our stuffy, airless rooms at 9.30 pm, exhausted.
The new arrival with an irreverent approach to the stuffy conventions and personnel of Parliament made an immediate impression.
Since the nineteenth century many an artist has claimed that he fought the good fight against stuffy conventionalism by baiting the bourgeois.
In a crowded, stuffy room, overhead fans strained to circulate the inert air.
It may have been more stuffy in the old days, but at least you knew where you were. Blaikie's Guide to Modern Manners
The menu is Scottish with French influences, while the decor and atmosphere are smart without being stuffy.
Service is 'fantastically unstuffy', and the set lunch 'unbeatable'. Times, Sunday Times
An awful stench filled the stuffy air of the wet alleyway, which permeated my nostrils.
Can you suggest somewhere luxurious, but not too stuffy or formal? Times, Sunday Times
The room is stuffy so I take off my jacket and place it on my chair.
It gives you a warm body and cool head rather than the stuffy heat provided by radiators or other forms of convected or warm air heating.
The exciting by-product of this way of working is that it produces a style of theatre that is frequently more engaging, imaginative and transformative than adult theatre with all its stuffy naturalistic conventions.
Theory discussions continued over coffee in the poolside bar, which really did beat a stuffy, centrally heated room back home.
The bureaucratic spirit pertains rather to stuffy Confucians, who foolishly imagine that the way to fulfill human potential is through service in officialdom.
Alternatively, if the opening speaker is dry, stuffy, boring, or pompous, it gives every other speaker less momentum to work with.
Her tiny attic room had poor ventilation and in summer it became unbearably stuffy.
I need better headphones for this stuff since mine's are like obscure foreign language classes way back in stuffy rooms.
It's one of those stuffy phrases coined by the bureaucrats upstairs, hunched at their desks with a drip on their nose and frayed cuffs and patched elbows, their chilblained feet squeezed into their cracked patent-leather shoes and a mug of cold tea beside them as they scratch the epitaph across the file in longhand, like vultures picking at the bones of a dead mission. Northlight
It's great for travel when combined with an aromatherapy mister of lavender, chamomile, neroli and rose to spray on sheets: It's also an ideal way to make a stuffy hotel room cozier.
Chris followed Frad out into the half-light of the warehouse, which seemed brilliant after the stuffy inkiness of the hole, and thence into the intolerable brilliance of late-afternoon sunlight. Cities In Flight
By the early-60s, following a meeting with the author Ken Kesey, Cassady had become the amphetamine-fuelled driver for Kesey's Merry Pranksters, a troupe of Californian hippies who piled into a brightly painted bus and set out to introduce the mind-expanding properties of LSD to the stuffy straights of middle America. The beatnik and the 'Bulletin: The Flaming Lips' Soft Bulletin sleeve
Whatever approach you take, when you're feeling even slightly queasy, the fresh air and steadier view on deck is preferable to being down below in a damp, stuffy cabin.
Young Indian scholars deserted stuffy classrooms at the first chance. America Past and Present
Other triggers include stuffy interiors, sweet and greasy foods and winding or bumpy roads. The Sun
We've moved away from the formal, stuffy way of doing things. Times, Sunday Times
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.
Eucalyptus oil is excellent for clearing a stuffy nose and for relieving muscular pain.
His poetry had a chaste reserve that reflected his Englishness, but off the page he was a merry wit who laughed loudly, told raunchy jokes and felt more at home in a leather bar than a stuffy literary function.
In a stuffy room on the third floor of an ageing hotel behind an ice cream parlour in a smart Lahore suburb yesterday sat the men who threaten to bring Pakistan to its knees.
The first film portrayed quite a tug of war between rebellious adolescence and stuffy religion. Christianity Today
She sits in a dark, stuffy room, only vaguely aware of her surroundings.
Cortleno opened the window by the door, admitting a warm breeze into the stuffy room.
I slid foretime on the first murmur of the second change wind I had blown into our stuffy corner of the galaxy. Timegod's World
It's got nothing that typifies the term: no stuffy corridors, no overblown explanations, no assumption of knowledge.
I didn't need these stuffy preppy clothes contaminating my car.
I discovered why one afternoon when everyone else was at siesta, and I was sitting meditating in the dim, stuffy little summer-house with Cleonie astride my lap going like a drunk jockey and humming "II etait une bergere"; when she'd panted her soul out, and I'd got a cheroot going, she suddenly says: Isabelle
The cigarette dangled from the corner of her red-smudged lips, its burnt and ashy tip sending up thin trails of smoke into the already stuffy air.
So curing your problem means clearing that stuffy nose. The Sun
Mark Twain scores lower than Reader's Digest in one calculation, because, I'm guessing, he likes to insert periods, spices things up with some very short sentences, and edits out stuffy polysyllabic words.
Sir William had the ability to conduct proceedings in a dignified manner without ever becoming stuffy.
Her children are grown, and want her to marry some old, boring, stuffy man who talks about his aches and pains a lot.
Most of the passengers waiting appeared to be rich and stuffy, dressed in designer clothes and indiscreetly staring at one another trying to figure out what he or she does for a living. Johnny Jet: Bangkok to Singapore on The Eastern and Oriental Express
It's not something dead like the history you find in a stuffy old library. Times, Sunday Times
The powerful arc lights had made the small space quite hot and stuffy. A Channel of Peace
The puffy staff's stuffy chests are stuffed with sufficient suffering.
I was fed up with the four walls of my stuffy little room at the hostel. Times, Sunday Times
Yet the service and atmosphere here is refreshingly unstuffy.
It's a cliche, of course; for many people the term "academics" is just naturally preceded by "stuffy. Archive 2009-04-01
It's getting stuffy in here - do you mind if I open the window?
Can you suggest somewhere luxurious, but not too stuffy or formal? Times, Sunday Times
We've moved away from the formal, stuffy way of doing things. Times, Sunday Times
Good for Radio 4 doing a second series after all the stuffed shirts complained about their first one because of their irreverent and unstuffy presentation.
Unlike the stuffy, overpriced hotel restaurants of yesteryear, the new dining options can stand up to the best epicurean eateries.
His unstuffy manner has also gained him increasing respect in a German business world desperate to modernise beyond its engineering and banking base.
A slightly frazzled, middle-aged woman greets me at the door and leads me through to a stuffy lounge, where her mother sits propped in a chair, glassy-eyed.
He was also a most agreeable companion, the opposite of stuffy. Times, Sunday Times
Vanity Fair, namely enlivening a potentially stuffy period flick by switching the locale to somewhere far more exotic. DVD Times
DeLaney recommended that she give up all wheat and dairy, in case her stuffy nose was caused by allergies to those foods, and forgo the beer she drank daily after work.
She sniffled, since her nose was stuffy now, and she laid down on the mattress that Chad had pointed out for her.
What this misses is the fact that he was also genial and unstuffy, with a capacity to make himself agreeable.
I've met the people who scrub the floors of iconic art galleries, the teachers who have to engage pupils in stuffy classrooms. Times, Sunday Times
Well, election season politics isn't all about stuffy guys in shirts - well, it mostly is.
However, children who have frequent coughs or are breathing through their mouths because of stuffy noses might not be able to keep their mouths closed long enough for an accurate oral reading.
The writer and characters are Italian, but this very funny satire about the stuffy little world of literature could be set anywhere. Times, Sunday Times
Mr. Smith is a stuffy lawyer, unassuming, straight-laced, reliable - traits that make him a trustworthy friend.
The first symptoms are usually like a cold: stuffy nose, runny nose, and mild cough.
The bar was stuffy, bright and full of the mixed odors of beer, smoke, and unwashed bodies.
Most notable for the casting surrounding the bland couple — Wills is played by an American with a full head of hair, if you were curious — which includes Victor Garber as a stuffy Prince Charles, Jean Smart as a good-natured Camilla talk about your designing women! and Jane Alexander as an unusually robust, tall Queen Elizabeth, playing yard darts and Wii to endear herself to the commoner who would be princess. Matt's Weekend Picks: Aug. 26-28
I find that the brightness of jazz lifts people's spirit, getting away from the stuffy old hymns of the last century or two.
Neither is overly formal or stuffy but the food is a step above the usual gastropub fare. The Sun
It gets very hot and stuffy in here in summer.
Gone forever was the dark and gloomy look, to say nothing of slippery floors and stuffy odours.
That's not to say you should be all important and stuffy, just wear the title humbly and impart your information in a straight forward, easy to read manner. Xml's Blinklist.com
For a portable and convenient inhalant put one drop each of the same oils on a tissue or handkerchief and inhale whenever needed to ease laboured breathing and a stuffy nose.
The plane is stuffy and the toilets are getting whiffy.
Well-liked and unstuffy, she is viewed as a resourceful figure. Times, Sunday Times
In the nature of things the tea-drinking in the stuffy "dinkey" drawing-room was not prolonged. A Fool for Love
I had a huge head ach and my nose was stuffy, I might be complaining but all I wanted to do was sleep.
The train is not full because, due to the delays, it is now past rush hour but the carriage I sit in is uncomfortably hot and stuffy.
No one could have communicated knowledge in a more informal and unstuffy way. Times, Sunday Times
The place, by the by, was very stuffy and oppressive, and the faint halitus of freshly shed blood was in the air. The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells
Sir William had the ability to conduct proceedings in a dignified manner without ever becoming stuffy.
Once more under the blanket, in the stuffy semidark, he was aware of his mother sighing and at last stealing quietly away. Portobello
First, mine sounded stuffy father - in - law of the drum of a winter, rain down quietly and quietly.
Side-effects with these treatments tend to be minor and include headaches, nausea, indigestion and a stuffy nose.
Often, other signs and symptoms - such as a cough, sore throat or fever - accompany a stuffy nose that's caused by a virus.
In approaching such an artist, one could be forgiven for sniffing the air for a tinge of stuffy curatorial purism or poker-faced pedantry.
Antihistamine and decongestant combinations are used to treat the nasal congestion (stuffy nose), sneezing, and runny nose caused by colds and hay fever.
Sources say that the store's image had become too old and stuffy and had failed to keep up with retailing trends. Times, Sunday Times
I could just envision myself stuck in that stuffy automobile, waiting, waiting, waiting. WEB OF DREAMS
Her Majesty Zanberger calls me into her stuffy, cabbagey apartment and tries to get gossip out of me. Deadly
They can send the laundry out, they can order food in ... but even the airiest apartments turn stuffy after a while. Confessions Of Eliot Spitzer: Newsweek
Our training room was stuffy, windowless and lit with naked strip lights and by now our new colleagues' attention was beginning to drift. SHOPPED: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets
Since the nineteenth century many an artist has claimed that he fought the good fight against stuffy conventionalism by baiting the bourgeois.
Rover 4x4s may no longer be the choice of aid agencies and oil prospectors, but the Freelander successfully avoids the stuffy and slightly horsy image while promising off-road possibilities.
When I had finally gotten out of the stuffy room a large mess and a broom, dustpan and garbage bin were waiting for me.
With the air-conditioning switched off, it was becoming hot and stuffy in the confined cabin space, and only there did I really begin to feel the dread hand of fear.
We sought refuge in the comfort of pipes, nursery food, big fat armchairs in stuffy, overheated rooms and low-risk jobs for life.
Museums have been trying hard to shed their stuffy image.
The stuffy people finally listen to this genius, then they stand and applaud.
The stuffy underground cavern lacked windows, natural light and ventilation. Times, Sunday Times
The highest tree pollen count in three years triggered a dangerous air quality warning Friday in Chicago, where allergist Dr. Joseph Leija warned in a statement: "Itchy eyes, stuffy noses and fatigue will be common among Chicagoans with sensitive respiratory systems. The nose knows: Allergy season here with vengeance
Although he enjoys the formality of many areas of the Mayor's office, he is an unstuffy man.
He is trying to promote a less stuffy image of the Conservatives.
The room was stuffy: the windows were shut and the green-and-white striped curtains drawn in purdah. God’s Country
For a portable and convenient inhalant put 1 drop each of the same oils on a tissue or handkerchief and inhale them whenever needed to ease laboured breathing and a stuffy nose.
New England in the 19th century was the apex of conformity: staid, stuffy and abstemious.
The powerful arc lights had made the small space quite hot and stuffy. A Channel of Peace
But trying to sleep in a stuffy bedroom can seriously impair sleep quality. Times, Sunday Times
He was dedicated to reinvigorating an institution that the Guardian newspaper once described as stuffy and uninspired, “a bastion of sluggishness.” Book Excerpt: ‘Provenance’
The atmosphere is very stuffy in here can we open a window?
Command at Fort Cumberland deteriorated into ceaseless squabbling between the short-tempered Stephen and the stuffy Dagworthy. George Washington’s First War
He is trying to promote a less stuffy image of the Conservatives.
He saw a confined stuffy room, dirty, like all guardrooms in the world, with bespitten floor, and walls as greasy and stained as though they had been trodden and rolled upon. The Crushed Flower and Other Stories
I realize that calling people out for not using the serial comma is probably an easier way of communicating clearly that you're a boring, stuffy tight-ass with a surfeit of free time.
Beethoven was born in a small, stuffy town in northern Germany in 1770.
The air was stuffy and there was an unbearable stench of blood and putrefaction.
The atmosphere is very stuffy in here can we open a window?

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