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词汇 stuffily
释义 stuffily
adverb
uk /ˈstʌf.əl.i/ us /ˈstʌf.əl.i/
in a way that is old-fashioned, formal, and boring: 古板地,保守地,一本正经地
It was a stuffily old-fashioned church.那是一座古板乏味的教堂。
"I beg your pardon, " she said somewhat stuffily.“你再说一遍?!”她一本正经地说。
The hotel manager stuffily informed us that children were not allowed in the dining room.
He replied rather stuffily that he did not concern himself with "ephemera".
These firms typically have stuffily prosaic names like "Blue Ridge" or "Highridge".
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Tedious and uninspiring
(as) dull as ditchwateridiom
anonymous
banal
banally
basic
marginal
marmoreal
meh
menial
menially
staid
staidly
stale
staleness
stodgily
watch paint dryidiom
watch the clockidiom
wearisome
wearisomely
weary

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stuffy

Examples of stuffily


stuffily
She heard the noise of scissors dropped on the floor--the most stuffily domestic sound in the world.
From Project Gutenberg
Ten o'clock bumped stuffily into eleven; the hours clogged and caught and slowed down.
From Project Gutenberg
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