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Example sentences for: starchy

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"[T]hose who hoped that the book would be like a royal mistress--flirty, flighty, zesty, yeasty--will be disappointed" (Julian Barnes, The New Yorker ). Unwittingly, some say, Kelley's dirt actually humanizes the starchy Windsors.
An article describes trendy new wrinkles in Brooks Brothers' previously starchy marketing techniques.
That Rowling's books, which are so smart and so bracingly British (I think you're right to keep bringing up P.L. Travers as a reference point--she and Rowling both manage to be at once subversive and starchy, anarchic and commonsensical), have resonated with parents is no surprise.
His starchy tenor is certainly among its most recognizable voices.