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stiff-necked

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Stiff necked and determined to make a name for himself at an early age, he took our quiet country life by storm.

Bland was stiff-necked, vain, the sort to be brutal in retaliation for any fancied invasion of his rights.

This monster of self-righteousness, this stiff-necked beast, needs a big axe.

The Fowey men had certainly the defect of their qualities, being proud and stiff-necked under the successes that attended them.

This solidarity makes the common people very stiff-necked, in an excellent sense of the word.

I think it's infernal foolishness, and I wish the Mayo breed didn't have so much of that cursed stiff-necked conscience!

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On this page you'll find 739 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stiff-necked, such as: authoritarian, authoritative, biased, bigoted, bullheaded, and dictative.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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