stuffed shirts (Meaning)

stuffed shirts

a smug, conceited, and usually pompous person often with an inflexibly conservative or reactionary attitude

No weak antonyms found.

The board of directors were a bunch of stuffed shirts who resisted any attempts at innovation.
The mayor's speech was full of pompous rhetoric and sounded like it was written by a stuffed shirt.
The principal was a notorious stuffed shirt who had a reputation for being inflexible and authoritarian.
The stuffy professors in the ivory tower had little understanding of the needs of the real world.
The stuffy bureaucrats were more interested in following regulations than serving the public.
The stuffy politicians made grand promises but delivered little of substance.
The stuffy aristocrats looked down upon everyone who was not of their social class.
The stuffy judges wore pompous robes and spoke in a condescending manner.
The stuffy clergymen gave sermons that were full of dogma and lacked any practical application.
The stuffy generals were out of touch with the reality of war and made decisions that led to needless bloodshed.

a smug, conceited, and usually pompous person often with an inflexibly conservative or reactionary attitude

fossils, fogies, fogeys, veterans, dodos, mossbacks,conservatives, old maids, stick-in-the-muds,antediluvians

radicals, liberals,moderns,progressives, hipsters, trendies,

The board of directors were a bunch of stuffed shirts who resisted any attempts at innovation.

The mayor's speech was full of pompous rhetoric and sounded like it was written by a stuffed shirt.

The principal was a notorious stuffed shirt who had a reputation for being inflexible and authoritarian.

The stuffy professors in the ivory tower had little understanding of the needs of the real world.