stiff-necked
Example Sentences
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The elves, half or whole, in “Rings of Power” are a stiff-necked bunch, less otherworldly than socially repressed.
From Los Angeles Times
Watson is in a perpetual state of stiff-necked choler tinged with snobbery — “I am better educated, more wealthy and stronger than you are,” he tells Bea, who is unmoved.
From Los Angeles Times
Ms. Goldsmith described the Jews here as a “stiff-necked people,” borrowing a biblical phrase for stubbornness, and said they were not going anywhere.
From New York Times
May, for all her stiff-necked clumsiness, represents the responsible but diminishing old guard.
From Washington Post
The story of an attractive American family finding terror in a new home credibly wedded Edgar Allan Poe’s twitchy, stiff-necked dread with the fetid, swampy atmospherics of a 1950s EC horror comic.
From New York Times
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