adv. [f. STUFFY a. + -LY2.] In a stuffy manner; fig. in a manner that lacks freshness or interest.
1894. K. Grahame, Pagan Papers, 115. They spent the greater part of their time stuffily in-doors.
1902. S. 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].
1912. Nation, 20 April, 84/1. So he [a dull writer] goes stuffily on his way.
