What is "stiffnecked"

Usage examples of "stiffnecked".

We are sure that the citizens of the Netherlands would agree that for the government, motivated solely by affronted pride and stiffnecked outrage, to put this large area and those who live there at such risk, would be intolerable and unforgiveable.

When Craig and Sally-Anne in the battered Land-Rover rode the red dust tracks that linked the huge paddocks, the Matabele women straightened up from the wooden mortars in which they were pounding maize, or turned stiffnecked under the enormous burden of firewood balanced upon their heads to call a greeting and watch them with a fond and knowing gaze.

Sooner or later you'll run up against reality as it actually is: and since you can't back downin your own way you're as stiffnecked as I am, or Squonk was, in his own fashionyou'll go right on refusing to believe.

We always loved you, all of us, even if you could be a stiffnecked son of a gun.