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Crossword-Solution: STIFF 5 letters, 239 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Stiff superl. Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or
flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.
Stiff superl. Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated;
neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff.
Stiff superl. Firm; strong; violent; difficult to oppose; as, a stiff
gale or breeze.
Stiff superl. Not easily subdued; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate;
pertinacious; as, a stiff adversary.
Stiff superl. Not natural and easy; formal; constrained; affected;
starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style.
Stiff superl. Harsh; disagreeable; severe; hard to bear.
Stiff superl. Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a
stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank.
Stiff superl. Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff
charge; a stiff price.

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STIFF anagram TIFFS

We have 239 clues for the answer “STIFF”

Clue Answers
Awkward, as a speaker 1 answer
Body bag contents 1 answer
Completely unlike a wet noodle 1 answer
Dead body, in slang 1 answer
Difficult to bend 1 answer
Don't tip 1 answer
Fail to give a tip 1 answer
Fail to tip 1 answer
Fail to tip a waiter 1 answer
Formidible 1 answer
Hardly limber 1 answer
Harsh, as a penalty 1 answer
Harsh, as a prison sentence 1 answer
He makes a waiter a hater 1 answer
High priced 1 answer
Leave no Info 1 answer
Leave no tip for 1 answer
Leave no tip to 1 answer
Leave nothing behind? 1 answer
Leave zip for a tip 1 answer
Light as a feather, ___ as a board 1 answer
Like a board 1 answer
Like a double at a bar 1 answer
Like a strong drink 1 answer
Like beaten egg-whites 1 answer
Like brush bristles 1 answer
Like some penalties 1 answer
Like starched collars 1 answer
Like the hand 8-7, in blackjack 1 answer
Like wing collars 1 answer
Lucky or scared follower 1 answer
Mary Roach book subtitled "The Curious Life of Human Cadavers" 1 answer
Much less than limber 1 answer
Needing to loosen up 1 answer
Neglect to pay 1 answer
Not at all flexible 1 answer
Not at all limber 1 answer
Not flexible, as muscles 1 answer
Not pay what's due 1 answer
Not tip 1 answer
Poor dancer 1 answer
Potent, as a potable 1 answer
Potent, like a drink 1 answer
Starched, say 1 answer
Strong, drinkwise 1 answer
Suffering from stage fright 1 answer
Tip zip 1 answer
Unable to be bent 1 answer
Unable to bend 1 answer
Unreasonable, pricewise 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with STIFF (5)

Can’t you see?” Emil stood looking down at her, holding his shoulders stiff and stiffening the arm to which she clung.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
This envelope had the air of an official record of some period long past, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials than at present.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
The cylinder was already opened in the centre of the pit, and on the farther edge of the pit, amid the smashed and gravel-heaped shrubbery, one of the great fighting-machines, deserted by its occupant, stood stiff and tall against the evening sky.
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992
Though this term is common, this use of punched-card chad is not a good idea, as the pieces are stiff and have sharp corners that could injure the eyes.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
She sat under his preaching with deep humility, and was as much taken in by his stiff shirt and white neckties as if she had not ironed them herself by lamplight the night before they appeared correct and spotless in the pulpit.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992

Quotes with STIFF (3)

Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the cold sky of the passing winter. Sit still with me and meditate on how useless effort is, how alien the will, and on how our very meditation is no more useful than effort, and no more our own than the will. Meditate too on how a life that wants nothing can have no weight in the flux o…
Fernando Pessoa The Education of the Stoic
Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff?
Marquis de Sade
The only other person I have fallen in love with that way is Jesus, and I hope that goes more smoothly. I hope I remember, when I'm bored with Him, and antsy, and sick of brushing my teeth next to the same god every morning, I hope I remember not to leave Him. I am not so worried that He will leave me. The Bible, after all, is full of stories about God sticking with His Bride, no matter how stiff-necked and prideful and unfaithful she may be.
Lauren F. Winner Girl Meets God
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 103 times in crossword archives (1963–2025).