Stiff in a sentence as a noun

But a very large piece of stiff cardboard will.

And if you trace organic stuff too closely, it starts to look stiff and dead.

If you're an entrepreneur, you're a working stiff too.

I liked the section titled "Good manners are not stiff, formal, or awkward.

If I just show you status updates in a list, you will be bored stiff after a point.

Think of the constraints as springs that follow Hooks law[1], only infinitely stiff.

Depending on who you ask, the "stiff hinges"--common to all ThinkPads--are a feature, not a bug.

Stiff in a sentence as an adjective

Were they offended by my jokes, expecting me to be stiff as a board to avoid offending them?

It often seems to get missed that it was Why the lucky stiff that first coined the phrase tumblelog, which is where the name Tumblr comes from.

In most practical materials, they're much stronger than they need to be once you've made them sufficiently stiff.

And over the last decade, there was a lot of recognition that China posed stiff competition for them.

It's not very funny unless you're bored stiff or in grade five, but nevertheless it's pretty harmless joke material, and it isn't sexism.

That's why carbon composite is such an excellent material for performance cars - it's immensely stiff.

People buying $50,000 cars with the limitations that electric cars have today aren't working stiffs, and their leisure patterns are probably quite different than most folks.

Stiff in a sentence as an adverb

My legs don't work, I feel like one of those floppy inflatable plastic guys they attach to a fan and use to promote used car lots, alternately staggering around stiff and floppy legged.

The moral I got out of it was that perceived stiff competition can drive you to make something really, really good, even if the competition never actually materializes.

The plan is, you die."Another quote: "When Columbia's tiles started popping off in a stiff breeze, it occurred to engineers that ice chunks from the tank would crash into the tiles during the sonic chaos of launch: Goodbye, Columbia.

They certainly have some stiff competition, mainly Paypal, entering the market, but Square is offering a more comprehensive experience for business owners, not to mention a much smoother product.

On the day of the IPO, one minute I was still a working stiff, and the next minute I was suddenly looking at an account with my name on it with more digits than I had ever seen before.> How old were you?39> What was it specifically that made the cash that ended up in your pocket?Not sure what you mean here.

What's cheaper, a $25/hr developer from Croatia who takes 6 months to deliver the project, or a $100/hr developer who takes 2 weeks, with the added bonus that it actually works?Something that always bothered me when I was a working stiff: I was always evaluated for pay based on how old I was, whether or not I was married with kids, and whether or not I owned my own house.

Stiff definitions

noun

an ordinary man; "a lucky stiff"; "a working stiff"

noun

the dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"

See also: cadaver corpse clay remains

adjective

not moving or operating freely; "a stiff hinge"

adjective

powerful; "a stiff current"; "a stiff breeze"

adjective

rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality"

See also: starchy buckram

adjective

having a strong physiological or chemical effect; "a potent toxin"; "potent liquor"; "a potent cup of tea", "a stiff drink"

See also: potent strong

adjective

marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable; "firm convictions"; "a firm mouth"; "steadfast resolve"; "a man of unbendable perseverence"; "unwavering loyalty"

See also: firm steadfast steady unbendable unfaltering unshakable unwavering

adjective

incapable of or resistant to bending; "a rigid strip of metal"; "a table made of rigid plastic"; "a palace guardsman stiff as a poker"; "stiff hair"; "a stiff neck"

See also: rigid

adverb

extremely; "bored stiff"; "frightened stiff"

adverb

in a stiff manner; "his hands lay stiffly"

See also: stiffly