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- noun Alternative spelling of
stuffed shirt .
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Examples
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Donovan had earlier sent a stuffed-shirt admiral the Pentagon had foisted on him to the Middle East for an inspection tour.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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His wife seems to be libidinally overwhelmed by Sy Ableman, a greasy, fat, patronizing stuffed-shirt widower who hugs those he screws over.
Matthew Yglesias » Is The Universe a Hologram? Should We Care? 2010
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Donovan had earlier sent a stuffed-shirt admiral the Pentagon had foisted on him to the Middle East for an inspection tour.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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Cheever's suburbanites aren't stuffed-shirt fogies but shallow hedonists who refuse to grow up.
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Alex and Chris are also indie musicians — no stuffed-shirt nerditude here, just solid, and free! info.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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Waxman's work on the House Homeland Security Committee stands in stark contrast to stuffed-shirt Joe Lieberman's snoozy tenure on the Senate side.
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The guests that night were the nutcase reverend that Father Michael had sparred with outside the prison, and some stuffed-shirt academic named Ian Fletcher.
Change of Heart Jodi Picoult 2008
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It also proves the stuffed-shirt, well-paidpundits and "editorial writers" wrong.
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Obama is a stuffed-shirt, retrousse-nosed, po 'boy, the worst kind of elitist!
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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He might not know, but sometimes a semi-cool uncle gets confidences a stuffed-shirt stepfather doesn't.
Touch of Evil 2006
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