stiff-necked
adjective
Synonyms
- arrogant
- assumptive
- bumptious
- cavalier
- chesty
- haughty
- high-and-mighty
- high-handed
- high-hat
- highfalutin
- hifalutin
- huffish
- huffy
- imperious
- important
- lofty
- lordly
- masterful
- overweening
- peremptory
- pompous
- presuming
- presumptuous
- pretentious
- self-asserting
- self-assertive
- sniffy
- supercilious
- superior
- toplofty
- toploftical
- uppish
- uppity
Examples of stiff-necked in a Sentence
he was too stiff-necked to admit that "underlings" might have useful ideas
her dinner parties are typically stiff-necked affairs, more to be endured than enjoyed
obviously uninterested in hearing any excuses, the stiff-necked officer handed me my speeding ticket with a flourish
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But some Jews stubbornly refused to assimilate and continued the sometimes strange and stiff-necked traditions of our people.
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“Stiff-necked.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stiff-necked. Accessed 13 Nov. 2024.
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