See stuffy in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
adjective
Oppressive due to a lack of fresh air:
airless, close, stifling. See breath, openArousing no interest or curiosity:
boring, drear, dreary, dry, dull, humdrum, irksome, monotonous, tedious, tiresome, uninteresting, weariful, wearisome, weary. See exciteMarked 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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