Patient
Patient adjective - Accepting pains or hardships calmly or without complaint.
Stuffy
Stuffy adjective - Easily irritated or annoyed.
Usage example: those nursing home residents with a reputation for being chronically stuffy were usually the last to receive attention
Both words in one sentence
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Happens on Downton Abbey - though it's 1912 and this is a new and relatively unusual treatment, and thus Isobel has to go behind the stuffy, snobbish Dowager Countess's back to get the doctor to try it on a patient who would otherwise die.
Source: Shot to the Heart
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