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stuffily, adv.|ˈstʌfɪlɪ|
[f. stuffy a. + -ly2.]
In a stuffy manner; fig. in a manner that lacks freshness or interest.
1894K. Grahame Pagan Papers 115 They spent the greater part of their time stuffily in-doors. 1902S. E. White Blazed Trail xv, The parlour..was a small square apartment carpeted in dark Brussels, and stuffily glorified in the bourgeois manner by [tasteless furniture]. 1912Nation 20 Apr. 84/1 So he [a dull writer] goes stuffily on his way. |