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stuffily

ADVERB
  1. in a stuffy manner
    `Come in please,' he said stuffily

How To Use stuffily In A Sentence

  • The dinner has gotten so not Washington press corps, so not our class, that this year, the New York Times stuffily declined to buy a table.
  • A million (it seems!) years ago when I was teaching Freshman Comp, one of the ‘invention’ processes I taught my students was something that in those days was stuffily called tagmemics and now is much more accessibly referred to as particle-wave-field.
  • The Hotel Sacher Cafe is the place to go for authentic sachertorte, a rich chocolate apricot confection that was invented in this stuffily splendid establishment.
  • Those looks provide a rare smartened-up alternative to the boho and gypsy skirts and sandals that seem to have swallowed the high street recently, but without seeming stuffily formal, either.
  • ‘We like to save these booths for larger parties,’ a waiter said stuffily.
  • They were also the first band to be played on Britain's Radio 1, 2, 3, and 4 all in one week, something quite unheard of in its day for the stuffily run government radio stations.
  • `Come in please,' he said stuffily
  • Stuffily, the Internet has spread the word throughout the software sphere. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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