stiff-armed

verb

past tense of stiff-arm
as in isolated
to deliberately ignore or treat rudely in his sad and lonely old age, he stiff-armed even once-beloved friends

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stiff-armed
  1. isolated
  2. rejected
  3. snubbed
  4. cut
  5. repulsed
  6. repelled
  7. cold-shouldered
Verb
  • What usually gets in the way isn't a lack of tools, but rather a design team isolated from your business context.
    — Polina Chebanova, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • Uvalde residents isolated by floodwaters Floodwaters also overran the city of Uvalde overnight, cutting off most outside routes.
    — Jesse Bedayn, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2026
Definition of isolated
Verb
  • The Senate, the upper house where conservatives hold a majority, rejected the bill.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 July 2026
  • Born in 1946 amid the bombing of Frankfurt, Ruppert instead developed a psychosexual cosmology that rejected neat distinctions between prey and predator.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 15 July 2026
Definition of rejected
Verb
  • After the initial All-Star rosters were announced on July 5, the Philadelphia Phillies starter spoke openly about feeling snubbed.
    — Levi Weaver, New York Times, 14 July 2026
  • A week after being snubbed from the initial All-Star rosters, Wrobleski will replace Reds right-hander Chase Burns.
    — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026
Definition of snubbed
Verb
  • The first due to a slip from Porro, which allowed Andy Robertson to cut the ball back for McTominay.
    — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 18 July 2026
  • The Odyssey’s crew is full of longtime Nolan collaborators, from cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema, who has worked with Nolan since Interstellar, to editor Jennifer Lame, who previously cut Tenet and Oppenheimer.
    — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 18 July 2026
Definition of cut
Verb
  • Plenty of people bought it, plenty were repulsed by it.
    — George Caulkin, New York Times, 11 June 2026
  • Firstman’s debut directorial effort, Club Kid, shrewdly acknowledges those garish personality tics, which have both endeared and repulsed audiences.
    — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2026
Definition of repulsed
Verb
  • Laura felt the rival’s ghost or essence spring away from her, as surely as if repelled.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026
  • Body on the line 💪 But that was not the Wan-Bissaka who repelled Rashford’s attacking threat as England toiled at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
    — Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 2 July 2026
Definition of repelled
Verb
  • Over the next half decade, Biden cold-shouldered the Turkish government.
    — Kaya Genç, The Dial, 3 Feb. 2026
Definition of cold-shouldered
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“Stiff-armed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stiff-armed. Accessed 19 Jul. 2026.

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