Stiff
Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.
Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated; neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff.
Firm; strong; violent; difficult to oppose; as, a stiff gale or breeze.
Not easily subdued; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate; pertinacious; as, a stiff adversary.
Not natural and easy; formal; constrained; affected; starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style.
Harsh; disagreeable; severe; hard to bear.
Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank.
Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price.
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Stiff Quotations
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
James Joyce
Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.
Gustav Klimt
I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.
Josef Albers
Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together.
Robert Musil
While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency.
Mitch McConnell
And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.
Lynn Redgrave
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
Edith Wharton
Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.
Emily Carr
Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.
Madonna Ciccone
I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit strange and boring and stiff and kind of dead, and I'm very not that.
Joss Stone
I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.
Peter O'Toole
Yeah, I like causing trouble. It's the teddy boy in me. I used to be a teddy boy. Feeling slightly inferior and wanting to cause a bit of bother and get some action going on in the room rather than get bored stiff.
Michael Gambon
Our employers today face numerous challenges and stiff competition from businesses all over the world.
Jim Gerlach
I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.
Earl Campbell
There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.
John Boorman
People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
Judith Guest
Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.
Meg Greenfield
The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing.
Thomas Edward Brown
I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.
Harry Bridges
And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'.
Phoebe Cary
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Stiff Translations
stiff in Danish is stiv
stiff in Dutch is afgemeten, plechtig, ceremonieel
stiff in Finnish is kankea
stiff in French is rigide, gourd
stiff in German is steif, starr, hart
stiff in Italian is rigido
stiff in Portuguese is duro
stiff in Spanish is rigido, tieso
stiff in Swedish is styv, stel, stram
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