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Definition of Stiffly
1. Adverb. In a stiff manner. "His hands lay stiffly"
2. Adverb. In a rigid manner. "He sat bolt upright"
Definition of Stiffly
1. adv. In a stiff manner.
Definition of Stiffly
1. Adverb. In a stiff manner. ¹
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Definition of Stiffly
1. in a stiff manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stiffly
Literary usage of Stiffly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Parts of the body in older Germanic and Scandinavian by Torild Washington Arnoldson (1916)
"WALK AS ON A STICK OR STUB OR ON STILTS, BE STIFF LIKE A STICK: WALK stiffly,
WALK CLUMSILY OR HEAVILY; STEP HIGH, STALK 30.01. ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1885)
"The mechanical perfection of the arrangement is completed by the great development
of the lower lip, which rises stiffly above the jawbone, and prevents the ..."
3. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet (1842)
"contend or strive one with another about the ways keep and maintain in good state,
same ; they do in no wise stiffly or eagerly paired; and the same so ..."
4. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the by John Lawson Stoddard (1903)
"Unlike the vineries of Switzerland and the Rhine, where myriads of upright poles
stand stiffly on the hillsides, adorned with somewhat scanty evidences of ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"But here it hangs jusi г- stiffly, and the fight is as hard, and the batía.-.
seems as hopeless. ..."
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