Stiff-backed

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Stiff´-backed`

Obstinate.

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stiff-backed - having a stiff back; "the guards stood stiff-backed and unsmiling"

backed - having a back or backing, usually of a specified type

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Axminster posture			Extraordinary, stiff-backed, thin figure all in black, the observed of all, while walking hand-in-hand with the girl; apparently shy, but--and here Fyne came very near showing something like insight--probably nursing under a diffident manner a considerable amount of secret arrogance. Chance by Conrad, Joseph View in context Very kind of him, the stiff-backed prig, with his dandified airs and West End swagger. Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context Even when--as it happened once or twice--both the servants left the room together he remained carefully natural, industriously hungry, laboriously at his ease, as though he had wanted to cheat the black oak sideboard, the heavy curtains, the stiff-backed chairs, into the belief of an unstained happiness. Tales of Unrest by Conrad, Joseph View in context			stickweed sticky sticky aster sticky bun sticky end sticky fingers sticky geranium sticky wicket sticky willie sticky-fingered stickybeak stiction Stictomys Stictopelia Stictopelia cuneata Stiddy stied Stieglitz sties stiff stiff aster stiff gentian Stiff neck stiff upper lip stiff-arm Stiff-backed stiff-branched stiff-haired Stiff-hearted stiff-necked Stiff-neckedness Stiff-tailed stiffen stiffener stiffening Stiffening order stiffie Stiffish stiffly stiffness Stifftail stiffy stifle Stifle bone stifled Stifler stifling stigma Stigmaria stigmasterol stigmata			Stiff cheddar! Stiff cheese! stiff frame stiff gentian Stiff heart syndrome stiff joint stiff lamb disease stiff leaf Stiff Leg Goat Stiff Legged Deadlifts Stiff Little Fingers stiff lung stiff lung stiff lung Stiff Lung Disease Stiff man syndrome Stiff man syndrome Stiff neck Stiff person syndrome Stiff person syndrome stiff sickness Stiff silkworm Stiff silkworm Stiff Skin Syndrome stiff upper lip stiff upper lip stiff-arm stiff-armed stiff-arming stiff-arms Stiff-backed stiff-branched stiff-haired Stiff-hearted stiff-leg derrick stiff-man syndrome stiff-man syndrome stiff-man syndrome stiff-mud brick stiff-necked Stiff-neckedness Stiff-person syndrome Stiff-tailed Stiff-tailed duck stiff-tailed ducks stiffback stiffed stiffed stiffed stiffed stiffed stiffen stiffen stiffen stiffen stiffen up stiffened stiffened stiffened compression element stiffened expanded metal Stiffened Plate Floor Deck

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