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Definition of Stiff-backed
1. Adjective. Having a stiff back. "The guards stood stiff-backed and unsmiling"
Definition of Stiff-backed
1. Adjective. obstinate ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stiff-backed
Literary usage of Stiff-backed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Comic Annual by Thomas Hood (1837)
"What do you think the old stiff-backed beggar said ?" I don't object to the rope,"
says he,—" nor I don't object to escape," says he ; " but I'll stand here ..."
2. Later Peeps at Parliament Taken from Behind the Speaker's Chair by Henry William Lucy (1905)
"... irst Lord of the T AND stiff-backed. coronet, I should me in Sse of Mr. Curzon.
... Stiffbacked."
3. Myers-Brooks Elementary Arithmetic by George William Myers, Sarah Catherine Brooks (1907)
"5O Shaving-stand 15.00 Davenport 55.00 Ball chair 8.00 Bookcase 15.00 stiff-backed
chair 8.00 Small desk 12.50 Armchair 6.50 Combination desk and bookcase ..."
4. Myers Arithmetic by George William Myers (1908)
"Find the cost of furnishing a room with a metal bedstead, a dresser, a washstand,
a polished-top stand, a stiff-backed chair, and 2 common rockers. 4. ..."
5. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1873)
"A stiff-backed, close- fisted old gentleman, with mill-hopper chin,—with puckery
much-inquiring eyes, which have never discovered any noble path for him in ..."
6. The American Historical Review by American historical association (1896)
"Not Seward or Greeley or Weed, but Wade and Lincoln and Chandler, were the
stiff-backed men of the crisis. A fuller study of Western sources would, ..."
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