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stuffy

adjective
  1. Oppressive due to a lack of fresh air: airless, close, stifling. See breath, open
  2. Arousing no interest or curiosity: boring, drear, dreary, dry, dull, humdrum, irksome, monotonous, tedious, tiresome, uninteresting, weariful, wearisome, weary. See excite
  3. Marked by excessive concern for propriety and good form: bluenosed, genteel, old-maidish, precise, priggish, prim, prissy, proper, prudish, puritanical, strait-laced, Victorian. Idiom: prim and proper. See plain

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