Thesaurus / stiffs
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synonyms for stiffs
- employee
- laborer
- peasant
- trader
- artisan
- breadwinner
- hand
- help
- operative
- proletarian
- serf
- stiff
- toiler
- blue collar
- company person
- craftsperson
- nine-to-fiver
- tradesperson
- wage earner
- white collar
- working person
- working stiff
- derelict
- drifter
- floater
- hobo
- stiff
- tramp
- transient
- vagabond
- vagrant
- bindle
- bindlestiff
- black sheep
- gutterpup
- guttersnipe
- alcoholic
- bacchanal
- boozer
- carouser
- debauchee
- dipsomaniac
- drinker
- drunk
- inebriate
- lush
- soak
- sot
- souse
- sponge
- stiff
- tippler
- toper
- wino
- bacchanalian
- barfly
- bibber
- tosspot
- wine-bibber
- beggar
- vagrant
- bum
- castaway
- dawdler
- drifter
- floater
- grifter
- hobo
- ne'er-do-well
- outcast
- renegade
- stiff
- tramp
- vagabond
- skidrow bum
- bamboozle
- bilk
- deceive
- defraud
- diddle
- double-deal
- dupe
- finagle
- fleece
- flimflam
- gyp
- hose
- mislead
- rip off
- rook
- sandbag
- scam
- screw
- shaft
- shortweight
- stiff
- sting
- swindle
- take
- trick
- bilk
- con
- deceive
- defraud
- dupe
- extort
- fleece
- gouge
- hoodwink
- overcharge
- victimize
- bamboozle
- beat
- clip
- cozen
- diddle
- do
- flimflam
- fool
- frame
- fudge
- gull
- pluck
- rook
- sandbag
- scam
- shaft
- stiff
- sting
- sucker
- trick
- trim
- pull a fast one
- put one over on
- rip off
- run a game on
- sell a bill of goods
- set up
- take for a ride
- take to the cleaners
- deceive
- discriminate against
- dupe
- exploit
- persecute
- pick on
- prey on
- sting
- bamboozle
- burn
- chisel
- clip
- con
- cozen
- defraud
- fleece
- gull
- hoax
- hoodwink
- immolate
- screw
- snow
- swindle
- trick
- use
- flimflam
- have it in for
- pigeon
- rope in
- set up
- stack the deck
- stiff
- sucker
- take advantage of
- bilk
- con
- deceive
- defraud
- delude
- dupe
- fleece
- hoodwink
- mislead
- swindle
- trick
- victimize
- bamboozle
- beat
- beguile
- bleed
- bunco
- burn
- caboodle
- chisel
- cozen
- crib
- cross
- diddle
- do
- finagle
- flimflam
- fudge
- gouge
- gyp
- hose
- milk
- ream
- rook
- sandbag
- scam
- screw
- shaft
- short
- shuck
- skin
- snow
- stiff
- sucker
- take
- trim
- two-time
- do a number on
- double-cross
- double-deal
- fast talk
- give bum steer
- jerk around
- pull one's leg
- rip off
- rope in
- take for a ride
- take in
- take out
- affright
- agitate
- alarm
- appall
- astound
- awe
- browbeat
- bulldoze
- chill
- cow
- daunt
- demoralize
- deter
- disconcert
- discourage
- dishearten
- dismay
- disquiet
- faze
- horrify
- intimidate
- panic
- perturb
- petrify
- repel
- scare
- spook
- startle
- terrify
- terrorize
- unhinge
- unnerve
- chill to the bone
- curdle the blood
- disburb
- discomfort
- make blood run cold
- make one's blood run cold
- make one's hair stand on end
- make teeth chatter
- scare away
- scare off
- scare the daylights out of
- scare to death
- silly
- stiff
- strike terror into
- evade
- bilk
- defraud
- dishonor
- fail
- neglect
- repudiate
- shirk
- skate
- skip
- stiff
- swindle
- leave town
- meet under arch
- put on the cuff
- run out on
- see in the alley
- skip out on
- bankrupt
- bereave
- dispossess
- divest
- rob
- strip
- bare
- denude
- despoil
- disinherit
- dismantle
- disrobe
- dock
- expropriate
- lose
- oust
- seize
- skim
- wrest
- hold back
- stiff
- agitate
- alarm
- appall
- astound
- awe
- daunt
- demoralize
- deter
- disconcert
- discourage
- dishearten
- dismay
- faze
- horrify
- intimidate
- perturb
- petrify
- startle
- terrify
- terrorize
- unnerve
- affright
- browbeat
- bulldoze
- chill
- cow
- disquiet
- panic
- repel
- spook
- unhinge
- chill to the bone
- curdle the blood
- disburb
- discomfort
- make blood run cold
- make teeth chatter
- scare away
- scare off
- scare to death
- stiff
- strike terror into
antonyms for stiffs
MOST RELEVANT
- assist
- assure
- calm
- comfort
- delight
- embolden
- encourage
- expect
- hearten
- help
- inspirit
- make happy
- please
- soothe
- stimulate
- urge
- exhilarate
- gladden
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
How to use stiffs in a sentence
Come one, come all—all you moth-eaten, lousy stiffs from Stiffville.
AMERICAN SKETCHESCHARLES WHIBLEYIt'll cost you just five hundred dollars to recover these two stiffs, an' close my mouth.
CAPTAIN SCRAGGSPETER B. KYNEQuick, grab some o' them empty potato crates an' pile 'em here where the stiffs was lyin' an' cover 'em up with the tarpaulin.
CAPTAIN SCRAGGSPETER B. KYNEI wanta go back to the offish and clean out that bunch of stiffs.
THE GRAY PHANTOM'S RETURNHERMAN LANDONI know of lots of stiffs with not half his brains that makes enough to ride around in taxis and order custom made shirts.
ODD NUMBERSSEWELL FORDIt's the trouble with us just now, we've got too many stiffs from the Skandinavia, and you've got our own good boys paralysed.
THE MAN IN THE TWILIGHTRIDGWELL CULLUMShe seen what them big stiffs o' doctors never seen, that I was goin' batty for a smoke.
OUR SQUARE AND THE PEOPLE IN ITSAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMSQuite a bunch of "stiffs" tried to ride out the overland that night, and I lost the Swede in the shuffle.
THE ROADJACK LONDONBeer and cheap wine made up the card, with alcohol thrown in for the blowd-in-the-glass stiffs.
MOON-FACE AND OTHER STORIESJACK LONDONThese Blackwater stiffs that wanted to run me out of town are coming around now to borrow five.
WUNPOSTDANE COOLIDGE