as in conservative
a person with old-fashioned ideas
the stuffed shirts in this organization don't seem to realize that without new blood our extinction is inevitable
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Recent Examples of stuffed shirt
With his piano-pounding performances, wild vocals, bouffant hair and makeup, Little Richard burst onto the musical scene in the 1950s and shook up the stuffed shirts with a string of his hit songs that got both black and white people dancing.
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NBC News, 9 May 2020
Karen Knorr’s photos of the private members’ clubs of London in the early 1980s are full of stuffed shirts wearing gleaming brogues.
—The Economist, 25 Feb. 2020
For this case, he has been contracted by a bunch of white-haired stuffed shirts with medals on their chests to find anyone who enabled the Kansas City suicide bombers, who crossed into the United States via the Mexican border.
—Katie Walsh, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2018
NBC News, 9 May 2020
Karen Knorr’s photos of the private members’ clubs of London in the early 1980s are full of stuffed shirts wearing gleaming brogues.
—The Economist, 25 Feb. 2020
For this case, he has been contracted by a bunch of white-haired stuffed shirts with medals on their chests to find anyone who enabled the Kansas City suicide bombers, who crossed into the United States via the Mexican border.
—Katie Walsh, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stuffed shirt
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Chief Justice John Roberts, along with Coney Barrett, broke with conservatives to side with the court's three liberal justices.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 11 Jan. 2025
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At the same time, conservatives accuse it of regulatory overreach.Stan Meiburg, The Conversation, 10 Jan. 2025
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Patrizio Di Marco, former president and CEO of Gucci and Bottega Veneta — together with Jay Schottenstein, U.S. retail veteran and founder of American Eagle Outfitters and DSW — are rekindling Pro-Keds.Luisa Zargani, WWD, 15 Jan. 2025
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Zheng, the fifth seed in Melbourne, was beaten 7-6 (3), 6-3 by the 36-year-old German veteran, who has now reached the third round Down Under for just the third time in her career.Matias Grez, CNN, 15 Jan. 2025
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At the center of this volcanic fossil is a vent that is around 25 miles (40 km) wide.Robert Lea, Space.com, 9 Jan. 2025
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The description of the new species was based on the discovery of fossils unearthed between 2013 and 2016 by University of Wisconsin–Madison Geology Museum (UWMGM) field crews at a site in what is now Wyoming.Newsweek, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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And some of us older fogies, Joni Mitchell and Carole King.Lars Brandle, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2023
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The parents—a dapper young fogy with ramrod posture and a soulful, slightly rumpled bluestocking—stand behind two tidy little girls in matching sailor suits.Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
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“Stuffed shirt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stuffed%20shirt. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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