stiff-necked
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Stiff-necked, prim, always dressed in a starched white shirt, he tries to turn the kids into adults overnight by lecturing them on deportment and making them read books they cannot hope to understand.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Stiff-necked Steve Kennedy, who once refused police files to a Wagner-approved TV scriptwriter and made it stick, refused to issue a formal apology.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And she caught herself murmuring over and over to herself, "Stiff-necked and rebellious—stiff-necked and rebellious!"
From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
"Stiff-necked as a bull if he takes it into his head to be so."
From The Duke's Children by Trollope, Anthony
Stiff-necked and hardened, under evident condemnation by its own conscience, it has chosen to persist in its doom.
From Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent by Luther, Martin