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STIFF-NECKED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does stiff-necked mean?
• STIFF-NECKED (adjective)
The adjective STIFF-NECKED has 1 sense:
1. haughtily stubborn
Familiarity information: STIFF-NECKED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Haughtily stubborn
Context example:
a stiff-necked old Boston brahmin
Similar:
obstinate; stubborn; unregenerate (tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield)
Context examples
It had such a prescriptive, stiff-necked, long-established, solemn, elderly air.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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