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    stiff-necked

    adjective

    • 1. haughty and stubborn: "stiff-necked pride"

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  3. Stiff-necked means proud and unwilling to do what other people want. It can also mean having a stiff neck or torticollis. See examples, pronunciation, and word frequency of stiff-necked.

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  4. Stiff-necked means haughty, stubborn or formal, stilted. Learn the synonyms, examples, word history and related articles of this adjective from Merriam-Webster dictionary.

  5. stiff-necked: 1 adj haughtily stubborn “a stiff-necked old Boston brahmin” Synonyms: obstinate , stubborn , unregenerate tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield

  6. Stiff-necked definition: having a stiff neck; having torticollis.. See examples of STIFF-NECKED used in a sentence.

  7. Definition of stiff-necked adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

  8. The earliest known use of the adjective stiff-necked is in the early 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for stiff-necked is from 1526, in the New Testament . stiff-necked is formed within English, by derivation; partly modelled on a Greek lexical item, and partly modelled on a Hebrew lexical item.

  9. Stiff-necked means stubborn and arrogant or aloof. Find the origin, usage, and translations of this adjective in various dictionaries and thesaurus.

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