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stuffed shirt

noun

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  1. One who is pompous or self-important, especially one who is either officious or…

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

    • "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?

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