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[ adverb ] in a stiff manner
Synonyms Examples "his hands lay stiffly" Used in print (Christopher Davis, First Family....)They lay on his lap , palms up , stiffly motionless , the tapered fingers a_little thick at the joints . His hands lay loosely , yet stiffly - they were like wax hands : almost lifelike , not quite - folded in his lap ; his mouth hung slightly open . (Bruce Palmer, "My Brother's Keeper", Many Are...)He stood stiffly erect , clutching the staff , his body half hidden by the limp cloth . (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)And the stiffly regal look of them , she saw grimly , lacked the quaver of age which , thwarting the efforts of her amazing will , ran through her spoken_words like a thin ragged string . (Richard Ferber, Bitter Valley....)They lay a_little too stiffly , with their eyes straining to stay closed . |
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[ adverb ] in a rigid manner
Examples "the body was rigidly erect" "he sat bolt upright" Used in print (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)She turned and walked stiffly into the parlor to the dainty legged escritoire , warped and cracked now from fifty years in an atmosphere of sea_spray . |
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