stuffed shirt
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.88 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who is pompous or self-important, especially one who is either officious or punctilious in a position of authority.
Informal
Example Sentences
- ""Don't you come the high-and-holy on me. You and your smooth, big, phony stuffed-shirt of a father.""
- "Bernstein, am I a stuffed shirt? Am I a horse-faced hypocrite? Am I a New England school marm?"
- "Oh? I remember, you came to Chicago once. Bit of a stuffed shirt, aren't you?"
- "Dr. Laughlin was the only one in a movie party who detested the second male lead—"I regarded him as overserious, pedantic, a stuffed shirt.""
- "The opportunistic style that was the bank's trademark still prevails and continues to attract talented young Hong Kongers looking for an alternative to the stuffed-shirt culture of most U.S. and European banks."