Stuffed shirt
Stuffed shirt noun - A person with old-fashioned ideas.
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Wordy and stuffed shirt are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wordy" instead an adjective phrase "Stuffed shirt".
Wordy
Wordy adjective - Using or containing more words than necessary to express an idea.
Stuffed shirt and wordy are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Stuffed shirt" instead an adjective "Wordy".
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Related pairs
- flowery and stuffed shirt
- flowery and wordy
- rhetorical and stuffed shirt
- rhetorical and wordy
- bombastic and stuffed shirt
- bombastic and wordy
- inflated and stuffed shirt
- inflated and wordy
- verbose and stuffed shirt
- verbose and wordy
- swollen and stuffed shirt
- swollen and wordy
- declamatory and stuffed shirt
- declamatory and wordy
Both terms in one sentence
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Sympathetic P.O.V.: From Moist's point of view, The Ankh-Morpork Times is a useful tool, and Miss Cripslock makes for a great verbal whetstone (that is, she forces him to keep his wits sharp), but the editor-in-chief is an overly wordy, pompous stuffed shirt.
Source: Discworld / Going Postal
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