stiffly
僵硬地,僵硬的,坚硬地,生硬地
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Definitions
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stiff·er, stiff·est.
- : rigid or firm; difficult or impossible to bend or flex: a stiff collar.
- : not moving or working easily: The motor was a little stiff from the cold weather.
- : not supple; moving with difficulty, as from cold, age, exhaustion, or injury.
- : strong; forceful; powerful: stiff winds;The fighter threw a stiff right to his opponent's jaw.
- : strong or potent to the taste or system, as a beverage or medicine: He was cold and wanted a good stiff drink.
- : resolute; firm in purpose; unyielding; stubborn.
- : stubbornly continued: a stiff battle.
- : firm against any tendency to decrease, as stock-market prices.
- : rigidly formal; cold and unfriendly, as people, manners, or proceedings.
- : lacking ease and grace; awkward: a stiff style of writing.
- : excessively regular or formal, as a design; not graceful in form or arrangement.
- : laborious or difficult, as a task.
- : severe or harsh, as a penalty or demand.
- : excessive; unusually high or great: $50 is pretty stiff to pay for that.
- : firm from tension; taut: to keep a stiff rein.
- : relatively firm in consistency, as semisolid matter; thick: a stiff jelly;a stiff batter.
- : dense or compact; not friable: stiff soil.
- : Nautical. having a high resistance to rolling; stable.
- : Scot. and North England. sturdy, stout, or strongly built.
- : Australian Slang. out of luck; unfortunate.
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- : Slang. a dead body; corpse.a formal or priggish person.a poor tipper; tightwad.a drunk.
- : Slang. a fellow: lucky stiff; poor stiff.a tramp; hobo.a laborer.
- : Slang. a forged check.a promissory note or bill of exchange.a letter or note, especially if secret or smuggled.
- : Slang. a contestant, especially a racehorse, sure to lose.
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- : in or to a firm or rigid state: The wet shirt was frozen stiff.
- : completely, intensely, or extremely: I'm bored stiff by these lectures.We're scared stiff.
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- : Slang. to fail or refuse to tip.
- : Slang. to cheat; swindle; do out of: The company stiffed me out of a week's pay.
Phrases
- stiff as a board
- stiff upper lip
- bore to death (stiff)
- keep a stiff upper lip
- scare out of one's wits (stiff)
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Examples
My friend Tim LeBon, a London-based cognitive behavioral therapist and author, has done research on this to fight back against the “stiff upper lip” understanding of Stoicism.
The Independent faces stiff competition in establishing itself as a recognized global news brand to compete with the likes of The New York Times or The Guardian, said media analyst Ian Whittaker.
Those connections are stiff and resist bending under pressure.
Hand-knee crawling also gently engages your hips and shoulders, which tend to get stiff from sitting for long periods of time.
In fact, if you want a stiffer challenge, try doing this puzzle entirely in your head.
And—to judge by the guy in a suit with an earpiece standing stiffly in the hotel lobby—Commissioner has a security detail of one.
Abed, seemingly exhausted from translating, stood stiffly and went to use the bathroom.
There were intermediates too—like at Stella McCartney, where a sweater dress stiffly jutted from a clean-cut ensemble.
But Sarkozy looked haggard when he stiffly walked out of the hospital Monday afternoon in his ubiquitous dark suit.
The plain furniture was stiffly arranged, and there was no litter of clothing or small feminine belongings.
He drew himself up more stiffly than before, as he declined the offer.
He bowed a trifle stiffly, and was surprised to have his bow returned with a graciousness that amounted almost to cordiality.
The Frenchman's blade scintillated in the setting sun around Haggard's more stiffly held weapon.
Zeal, who was sitting stiffly forward, his hands gripping the arms of his chair, laughed dryly.