stiffish
- a word derived from stiff.
Example Sentences
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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
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
"Thank God that there ain't a stiffish onshore breeze," muttered the coxswain of the whaler.
From Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
"I feels a bit stiffish like, and as if summat wur cuttin' m' at times, when I lifts up my arms."
From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas
Ah, well, I can afford a stiffish price, Tom.
From Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. by Duncan, Norman
