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"ref": "1914, Samuel Hopkins Adams, chapter 30, in The Clarion",
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"ref": "1941, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles, Citizen Kane (motion picture), spoken by Jedediah Leland (Joseph Cotten), RKO Radio Pictures",
"text": "Bernstein, am I a stuffed shirt? Am I a horse-faced hypocrite? Am I a New England school marm?",
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"ref": "1952 May 26, “Medicine: Mind Matters”, in Time, archived from the original on 2012-12-01",
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"sense": "one who is overly-officious",
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"sense": "one who is overly-officious",
"word": "напыщенное ничто́жество"
},
{
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"sense": "one who is overly-officious",
"word": "persona estirada"
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"word": "stuffed shirt"
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