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- use a stiff piece of paper for the project
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- stiff winds
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- don't you think that's a pretty stiff fine for such a minor infraction?
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- stir two cups of flour with the remaining ingredients to make a stiff dough
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- felt stiff and ill-at-ease whenever she was introduced to her parents' friends
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- awkward,
- clumsy,
- gauche,
- graceless,
- inelegant,
- rough-hewn,
- rustic
- (also rustical),
- stilted,
- uncomfortable,
- uneasy,
- ungraceful,
- wooden
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- we'll have a stiff climb to actually reach the summit
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- arduous,
- Augean,
- backbreaking,
- challenging,
- demanding,
- difficult,
- effortful,
- exacting,
- formidable,
- grueling
- (or gruelling),
- hard,
- heavy,
- hellacious,
- herculean,
- killer,
- laborious,
- moiling,
- murderous,
- pick-and-shovel,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- rugged,
- severe,
- strenuous,
- sweaty,
- tall,
- testing,
- toilsome,
- tough,
- uphill
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- cheap,
- easy,
- effortless,
- facile,
- light,
- mindless,
- simple,
- soft,
- undemanding
- the stiff politeness with which I was greeted suggested that they weren't truly happy to see me
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- seeing that the customer was more than a little stiff, the bartender offered to call a cab for him
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- besotted,
- blasted
- [slang],
- blind,
- blitzed
- [slang],
- blotto
- [slang],
- bombed,
- boozy,
- canned
- [slang],
- cockeyed,
- crocked,
- drunk,
- drunken,
- fried,
- gassed,
- hammered
- [slang],
- high,
- impaired,
- inebriate,
- inebriated,
- intoxicated,
- juiced
- [slang],
- lit,
- lit up,
- loaded
- [slang],
- looped,
- oiled
- [slang],
- pickled,
- pie-eyed,
- plastered,
- potted
- [slang],
- ripped
- [slang],
- sloshed
- [slang],
- smashed
- [slang],
- sottish,
- soused,
- sozzled,
- squiffed
- (or squiffy),
- stewed,
- stinking
- [slang],
- stoned,
- tanked
- [slang],
- tiddly
- [chiefly British],
- tight,
- tipsy,
- wasted
- [slang],
- wet,
- wiped out
- [slang]
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nounSynonyms & Antonyms of stiff (Entry 2 of 3)
- one lucky stiff will get the biggest jackpot in the lottery's history
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verbSynonyms of stiff (Entry 3 of 3)
- the actress has a reputation for stiffing the press at red-carpet events
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- customers who were too embarrassed to admit that they had been stiffed by an Internet company claiming to sell designer handbags
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- beat,
- bilk,
- bleed,
- cheat,
- chisel,
- chouse,
- con,
- cozen,
- defraud,
- diddle,
- do,
- do in,
- euchre,
- fiddle,
- fleece,
- flimflam,
- gaff,
- gyp,
- hose
- [slang],
- hustle,
- mulct,
- nobble
- [British slang],
- pluck,
- ream,
- rip off,
- rook,
- screw,
- shake down,
- short,
- shortchange,
- skin,
- skunk,
- squeeze,
- stick,
- sting,
- sucker,
- swindle,
- thimblerig,
- victimize
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The first known use of stiff was before the 12th century
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