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单词 stuffy
释义 stuffy
\ˈstəfē, -fi\ adjective
(-er/-est)
1. obsolete : containing stuff or substance : substantial
2. : sullen, ill-humored
 < wrong feeding may have much to do with … stuffy, ill-natured, contractive individuals — H.A.Overstreet >
3.
 a. : lacking oxygen : oppressive to the breathing : stale, close
  < it was not and stuffy, and the air was gray with smoke — W.S.Maugham >
  < popping into the stuffy little office — Vicki Baum >
 b. : stuffed or choked up
  < the stuffy feeling in the head — H.G.Armstrong >
4. : lacking in vitality or interest : dull, stodgy
 < a woodenly earnest, relentlessly stuffy sort of fellow … not very strong on humor — Alan Devoe >
 < the press conference … was far from solemn and stuffy — Stafford Derby >
5. : provincial in outlook : narrowly inflexible in standards of conduct : self-righteous
 < am abiding by the rather involved, stuffy code of ethics — R.L.Riggs >
 < resistance to stuffy taboos and pieties — N.E.Nelson >
 < against the orders of a rather stuffy police commissioner — S.H.Adams >
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