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How to use stiff-necked in a sentence

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We look back at the stiff-necked Victorians with a smug sense of superiority.
God will not reach beyond the boundaries of your own stiff-necked, hard-of-heart will and save you against your will!
My sister jumps through hoops for her like a puppy seeking approval and I get stiff-necked in the face of Mother's orders and pronouncements.
He appeared surprised that many in the music profession today were stiff-necked.
Anyway, it was a beautiful sunny fresh powder type of day and a bunch of stiff-necked fools weren't going to spoil it.
But if the stiff-necked transgressors cannot be persuaded, they can be cowed and conquered.
Peaceful demonstrators are squaring off with stiff-necked authorities over the city's refusal to grant permission for the rally they want.
Carly just smiled, and egged the stiff-necked officer to take her turn.
An attraction of OMA is that they are less stiff-necked than other practices.
She was vulnerable and sympathetic one moment, proud and stiff-necked the next.
So do benefits investigators, who are fed up with being seen as stiff-necked busybodies or worse amateur detectives.
Portraying Freud as a witty patriarch, the film seems to side with him against his stiff-necked protégé.
They asserted that stiff-necked people, blinded by the devil, only gave the appearance of humility.
You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are always opposing the Holy Spirit just as your fathers did before you.
Though stiff-necked and officious, the commanders aren't demonized nor singled out for blame.
You really do believe in the stiff-necked priggish Edward, to the point where you want to punch him.
The truculent aggression and stiff-necked unilateralism of both teams are already well known.
For fans of witty musical numbers, there are sequences like the patter song in which Millie takes dictation from her stiff-necked boss, and repeats it at lightning speed.
The Canadian soldiers could not help comparing their own officers with stiff-necked British counterparts and noticing how the family feeling in the Canadian Corps contrasted with the social divisions in the British.
He admitted to himself that he'd been at once stiff-necked and craven.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They treated them stiff-necked food-slingers like they was a lot of wooden Indians.
You flattered yourself you were going to get riches, but your daughters were too stiff-necked.
It only developed later what a stiff-necked people the Bulgars could be.
But he was hard-mouthed, and stiff-necked and hell-bent on having his own way about things.
The old Alroy blood flows in his veins, a stiff-necked race.
This was a new aspect of the stiff-necked young teamster they had known.
Words may come, but they are words, hard and stiff-necked and pedestrian.
Governor Andros warned me that you would be stubborn and stiff-necked!
It had such a prescriptive, stiff-necked, long-established, solemn, elderly air.
If Heaven bore with the whole nation of stiff-necked unbelievers for more years than a layman can number, we may endure the presence of one Jew for a few hours.
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