Meaning of stuffed shirt | Babel Free

Definitions

One who is pompous or self-important, especially one who is either officious or punctilious in a position of authority.

idiomatic, informal

Equivalents

Examples

“"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.”

CEFR level