What is "stiffing"

Usage examples of "stiffing".

Michael's, the almshouse, and then the uneven row of buildings of which Bogle House was one, Tom Erskine found no difficulty at all in stiffing his better feelings, which told him he had bequeathed to Sir Andrew a thoroughly unnerving afternoon.

When Will Scott got to his feet, his heartbeats were behaving oddly, but he was not slow in following the Master across the jammed, legstrewn room, up a dark stairway leading from arcade to gallery, andalong a long, stiffing passage railed off on one side from the room they had just left.

They lend to the compulsive spenders, the compulsive gamblers, the people with long histories of stiffing credit companies, declaring bankruptcy, that sort of thing.

He said he hired you to find his ex-wife, but he figured you were stiffing him and he wanted to find out.