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• s  lacking fresh air
  hot and stuffy and the air was blue with smoke
• s  excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
• s  affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction
  a stuffy feeling in my chest

• Out went stuffy Victorian parlors; in came sleek, glass-walled structures that blurred the line between indoors and out.
• The explanation starts somewhere back in that stuffy studio, with the discipline and the songs and the revolutionary idea that the music actually matters.
• The concept behind these events is that restaurants are impersonal, stuffy and not nearly adventurous enough.

• airless
• close
• unaired
• stodgy

News & Articles

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• U.S. Open — U.S.G.A. Looks to ‘Caddyshack’ Zinger to Speed Up Play
  To shake golf out of its slow-playing doldrums, the U.S.G.A. will unveil a campaign celebrating “Caddyshack,” the 1980 movie that lampooned golf’s stuffy country club reputation.
  June 12, 2013 - New York Times
• The Runcible Spoon: Washington’s little food zine with a big sense of humor
  The homespun publication wants to show the world that D.C. isn’t as stuffy as it seems.
  June 11, 2013 - Washington Post
• Message to Whitewater grads: Don’t fear failure
  As the audience in front of him sweltered in the stuffy gym, teacher Ray Lauersdorf recounted the story of Thomas Edison’s many failures before he invented the light bulb.
  June 10, 2013 - The Janesville Gazette

Quotes

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• Matt Frei in Forbes
  We are British,Frei said, "and people have this impression of the British as being a bit stuffy, a bit haughty. We have to be aware of that. I personally don't think if you watch a BBC newscast now that you will feel you're being talked...
• Gilbert Cates in CTV.ca
  Chris' comments over the past few weeks are meant to be humorous digs at a show that some people, obviously including Chris himself, think may be a bit too stuffy,producer Gil Cates said in a statement released by the Academy of Motion...
• Myles Brand in FOX News
  We'll still have a stuffy section,Brand joked. "But we want to have communication in a manner that's appropriate to our student-athletes. We're looking aggressively at new ways of getting our messages out."