Synonym: bolt, rigidly, stiff. Similar words: stiff, mastiff, stiffen, stiffness, keep a stiff upper lip, gruffly, piffle, riffle. Meaning: adv. 1. in a stiff manner 2. in a rigid manner.
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31. He got up stiffly, finding a steaming coffee pot beside his four-poster.
32. I sent him a stiffly worded memo telling him exactly what I thought of that.
33. But like all armoured animals they have sacrificed flexibility for security and must now be content with a stiffly jointed existence.
34. Joe got out slowly, stiffly, and he straightened up and took a deep breath of the exhaust-tainted air.
35. He nods stiffly, then settles his chin down on his chest, scowling.
36. Miriam sat stiffly in her chair next to her husband, Raoul.
36. Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and make good sentences.
37. Stiffly, they walked out of the village into the surrounding darkness.
38. He comported himself so stiffly during cocktails that Jim Maier suspected the bishop might be feeling intimidated.
39. Larry, my stepfather, sits stiffly with a pained expression on his face.
40. Limbs caught and held stiffly in awkward attitudes jerked into life as if an electric current had been applied to them.
41. In contrast Farc released a video showing its freed guerrillas saluting stiffly as they were greeted by an honour guard of rebels.
42. Therefore he walked very stiffly and awkwardly, swinging his leg out sideways in order to force it to go forwards.
43. Her doll sits stiffly, pointed straight ahead at the fixtures that emerge from the wall.
44. That way, you can see if you clutch the lectern or keep your hands too stiffly at your side.
45. Shiona was seated on the sofa, her back to the window, leafing stiffly through a magazine.
46. Two guards, both armed with machine-pistols, stood stiffly to attention either side of him.
47. As it was he balked, both forefeet thrust stiffly in front of him, jarring me to the bone.
48. The neck may be held stiffly or tilted to one side owing to muscle spasm. 2.
49. I saw how he held his head, slightly stiffly, and how the very air around him seemed charged.
50. Waiters in the silver national costume of Luctia bowed stiffly as they placed dish after lavish dish in front of the delegates.
51. In the kitchen Mario sat with one leg stiffly in front of him resting on a chair.
52. Nurse smelt of toothpaste and disinfectant, and crackled when she moved because her clothes were so stiffly starched.
53. Now, at the Mirage, Ali stands and walks stiffly towards the picture windows overlooking Las Vegas.
54. The white shirt under the gray suit-jacket is stiffly starched; the tie is held in place by an alumnus tie-tack.
55. At work, she wears artificial legs and walks stiffly with a cane.
56. Mones held himself as stiffly as a nineteenth-century tragedian, and filled his lines with sentiment.
57. They walked slowly, led by the bagpipers, past an honor guard of law enforcement officers standing stiffly at attention.
58. She sat stiffly on a ladder-back chair in the kitchen doorway.
59. Sitting stiffly, shaking firmly, speaking crisply, and sip-ping a glass of ice water were professional.
60. Thwarted, he then embraced her stiffly before taking the baby in his arms under the watchful eye of his wife.
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