`Come in please,' he said stuffily. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective, : a stuffy room. ,stuffy air; a stuffy odor. ,a stuffy nose. From Dictionary.com.
"I could have faced your death, too," he said stuffily. From Wordnik.com. [Hot Money]
Everything was quiet, a bit muffled and stuffily chilly. From Wordnik.com. [Killer Dolphin]
“I will call on your employer tomorrow,” he said, as stuffily as possible. From Wordnik.com. [Command Decision]
“To me it is not amusink but I am glad you find it so,” Mrs. Bünz said stuffily. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
"I'm the special secretary for Adolescents and Children," he said, a little stuffily. From Wordnik.com. [Butchers Hill]
A failed prig is one who can't meet the standards he or she stuffily sets for others. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Janke and dead, sodomized hookers? Hey, I'm just sayin'.] Reference
'I suppose some people prefer having all the windows closed,' said Lady Alice stuffily. From Wordnik.com. ['Whaddya mean, no adverbs?' asked Tom swiftly.] Reference
“Any such caper on my part would be dead against the regulations,” Obby said stuffily. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
‘I should hardly say,’ answered Payne a little stuffily, ‘that they had all gone rotten.’. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
If anything, in such a setting, he appears more stuffily European and desperate to appear with-it. From Wordnik.com. [Dalí Gets a Makeover] Reference
This small, stuffily warm room saw little use, Kennit surmised from the stiffness of the fabric on the cushioned chairs. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Magic]
Foster knew he was sounding stuffily virtuous, but he wasn't going to let this man lure him into an expression of intellectual anarchy. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories Vol 1]
The uniformed Pervect was standing stuffily, with his palm up and a vague sneer on his face that would probably pass for a smile locally. From Wordnik.com. [Myth-Nomers And Im-Pervections]
Performance poetry is poetry written to be ... performed (rather than stuffily mumbled by some arty-type, nose glued to a sheet of paper). From Wordnik.com. [Of Apples and Snakes] Reference
If I told a funny joke, they just stiffly, stuffily posed. From Wordnik.com. [Vice Magazine] Reference
But Noël and H.O. preferred to sit stuffily over the common-room fire. From Wordnik.com. [New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune] Reference
Ten o'clock bumped stuffily into eleven; the hours clogged and caught and slowed down. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
With German consciousness, they were stuffily attired for this novel and important event. From Wordnik.com. [Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life] Reference
He wants to break the stereotype of stuffily dressed government officials who look unapproachable. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Just because a storm rages outside, dear, why should it be necessary to heat this room so stuffily?. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Red Pepper] Reference
She heard the noise of scissors dropped on the floor -- the most stuffily domestic sound in the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Job An American Novel] Reference
I always associate hotel restaurants with being extremely expensive, unfrequented and stuffily (over) - formal. From Wordnik.com. [SofiaEcho RSS feed] Reference
Perhaps, indeed, it was one of their best qualities that they spent the greater part of their time stuffily indoors. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Age] Reference
I would have anticipated grave trouble,” said Dr. Withers stuffily. From Wordnik.com. [Final Curtain]
“I’m sorry, I’m sure,” said the attendant stuffily and was silent for a while. From Wordnik.com. [The Fashion in Shrouds]
Ten o’clock bumped stuffily into eleven; the hours clogged and caught and slowed down. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
"'By all means,' said I stuffily, though I remembered having the case after we'd left the restaurant. From Wordnik.com. [Widdershins] Reference
"Actually, I went to bed fairly early," I said, stuffily - "I just had a lot of trouble getting to sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Sweet Myth-tery of Life]
Too stuffily traditional for my taste, but Alastair kept a tight rein on things and that’s what he liked. From Wordnik.com. [Mourn Not Your Dead] Reference
“Damned fine!” said Dwight stuffily. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Edge] Reference
The room was long and dim and stuffily warm. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
'I'll do it in my own way,' he said stuffily. From Wordnik.com. [The 9th Directive]
“Exactly so,” Otterly said rather stuffily. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
'The Bureau was not roped in,' he said stuffily. From Wordnik.com. [The 9th Directive]
"I beg your pardon," she said somewhat stuffily. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 1] Reference
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