Crossword clues for stiffly
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stiffly \Stiff"ly\, adv. In a stiff manner.
Wiktionary
adv. In a stiff manner.
WordNet
Usage examples of "stiffly".
About a mile up the road we came across our artilleryman sitting very stiffly on the edge of a culvert with a greasy handkerchief on his knees.
Stooped, he strode stiffly to the machine shop and inquired of the machinist when the buzz saw and lathe were planning to take a fairly protracted intermission, because he, the ballet pianist and former concert pianist, wished to practice, very softly, some thing complicated, a so-called adagio.
With ready horns and tail stiffly erect, the basto waited to catch it and toss it again.
But his besotted brain was stuck on Hester and her stiffly circumspect note.
Behind him Tirammer, furred giant of the nearest neighboring grove, heaved his body stiffly erect, fur bristling on his shoulders.
She shifts stiffly upright in her seat and leans forward to see what Britt is pointing to in the deep darkness beyond the left-front fender of their now unmoving machine.
Shadows were graved like caverns in the flanks of the hill, but while the higher surfaces, as it drawn in wood by an engraver, were strongly marked in passages of silver and black, the lower planes were wreathed in vapour through which rose manuka bushes, stiffly pallid.
Sulla stiffly, careful not to let his anger at being patronized show, but moment by moment hardening in his resolve that this conceited mediocrity should die.
The son of Ector approached stiffly to pay him the courtesy of the house, holding the reins while Merlin dismounted.
Karelsen said stiffly, in spite of himself, because he knew now for sure that Milt was off again, and that the only way to handle him when he was a madman like this was to keep your equanimity.
Baxley, in a clean uniform, stood stiffly at attention as Brother President Kyle Murrel strode in arrogantly, escorted by helmeted Brothertroops.
Beat, add lightly the stiffly beaten whites of two eggs, fill hot buttered gem pans two-thirds full, and bake in a hot oven.
Stiffly she bent to unhook the pedometer, not broken, and showed it at the wicket.
He tossed a glance backward at the formation of cavalry behind them, with the princeling riding stiffly out of earshot.
The words came out more stiffly than she intended, but Quath clutched at the phrase out of a sense of dignity.