stiff
adjective
rigid or firm; difficult or impossible to bend or flex.
stiffish
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a word derived from
stiff.
Example Sentences
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More than the stiffish text, the hundreds of pictures disclose her allure, the poetry of her body and even the evangelical frenzy that sent her forth to conquer the world's stages.
From Time Magazine Archive
Furnished in stiffish fashion, the apartment includes a well-stocked library equipped with everything from Joe Miller's Joke Book to the works of Schopenhauer.
From Time Magazine Archive
The wind fell about sunset, then oars were got out, and, laden as we were, it was a stiffish pull.
From O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas by Gordon Stables
His wearied mind—like a recalcitrant hunter at a stiffish fence—had thrown off the idea as too much weight to carry.
From Trusia A Princess of Krovitch by Davis Brinton
A little after sundown it began to breeze up, and by four bells of the first watch, there was a stiffish wind, which at midnight began to climb into half a gale.
From The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
