Synonyms of stiffs

stiffs 1 of 2

noun

plural of stiff

1

as in corpses

a dead body

to the mortician, a stiff was a stiff and they were all pretty much alike

Synonyms & Similar Words

• corpses
• carcasses
• relics
• remains
• cadavers
• bones
• corses
• corpora
• ashes
• mummies
• deceased
• decedents
• carnages
• carrions

2

as in guys

a member of the human race

one lucky stiff will get the biggest jackpot in the lottery's history

Synonyms & Similar Words

• guys
• men
• people
• lives
• things
• creatures
• individuals
• customers
• birds
• souls
• humans
• bodies
• ducks
• specimens
• mortals
• fish
• sorts
• parties
• babies
• beings
• eggs
• devils
• characters
• human beings
• scouts
• personages
• slobs
• personalities
• faces
• bods
• fellows
• cookies
• wights
• sons of man
• heads
• neighbors
• brothers
• homos
• celebrities
• humanoids
• selves
• hominids
• fellowmen
• somebodies

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• animals
• beasts
• brutes
• critters
• beasties

stiffs

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of stiff

1

as in isolates

to deliberately ignore or treat rudely

the actress has a reputation for stiffing the press at red-carpet events

Synonyms & Similar Words

• isolates
• rejects
• cuts
• snubs
• repulses
• stiff-arms
• cold-shoulders
• repels
• slights
• high-hats
• forgets
• neglects
• disdains
• ostracizes
• spurns
• scorns
• rebuffs
• brushes (aside or off)
• passes over
• overlooks
• shrugs off
• disregards
• overpasses

2

as in hustles

to rob by the use of trickery or threats

customers who were too embarrassed to admit that they had been stiffed by an Internet company claiming to sell designer handbags

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hustles
• cheats
• squeezes
• stings
• plucks
• screws
• beats
• sticks
• suckers
• does
• bilks
• tricks
• victimizes
• shorts
• chisels
• swindles
• defrauds
• bleeds
• rooks
• fiddles
• fools
• mulcts
• deceives
• cozens
• diddles
• fleeces
• reams
• shortchanges
• skins
• shakes down
• gaffs
• skunks
• exploits
• hoses
• rips off
• cons
• nobbles
• chouses
• wrenches
• thimblerigs
• euchres
• takes to the cleaners
• flimflams
• does in
• clips
• betrays
• extorts
• takes for a ride
• sells a bill of goods to
• dupes
• overcharges
• gouges
• milks
• nicks
• bitches
• soaks
• gulls
• wrests
• wrings
• bamboozles
• ropes (in)
• double-crosses
• fast-talks

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of stiffs

Noun

Advertisement Not every variety-show booking delighted every viewer (just ask the stiffs who hyperventilated when Elvis wiggled his hips on Sullivan’s stage), but there was enough, most nights, to captivate tens of millions of them. —Judy Berman, Time, 22 May 2026

Now the working stiffs are white-collar people. —Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 25 Apr. 2026

Trixies is a song cycle centering on a mythical bar and its working class stiffs and gangsters that’s one-part Cheers, the other The Untouchables. —Jason Pettigrew, SPIN, 9 Mar. 2026

In February 2021, the Rockies slammed shut their own competitive window, one that had peaked too briefly in 2017 and ’18, by trading Arenado and $51 million to the Cardinals for Austin Gomber and four stiffs. —Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 21 Feb. 2026

Marty Supreme is stuffed with street kids, working stiffs, midcentury aristocrats, and world-class athletes, all clad in crisp, period-accurate garb. —Wengel Gemu, Vanity Fair, 15 Jan. 2026

After one of his clients stiffs him, Veneno runs into Muñeco (Osvaldo Sanchez), a trucker in his 40s who spends long weeks away from his estranged family, drinking and doing drugs to stay awake on the job. —Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025