A stiff-necked old Boston Brahmin. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Who 'gainst the Lord in stiff-necked folly strives. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses] Reference
You Earth people are a stiff-necked lot, aren't you?. From Wordnik.com. [Whom Gods Destroy] Reference
Day was held by 'stiff-necked Puritans' of New England. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference
On the other hand, a stiff-necked Englishman traveling from. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873] Reference
Against such stiff-necked perversity he could hold out no longer. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference
Britain knows this but insists on going its own stiff-necked way. From Wordnik.com. [1981 Hunger Strikes] Reference
You were always too stiff-necked and sure of yourself for comfort. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow Rising]
Father said: “Bartholomew always was a stiff-necked hypocrite.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
Lucullus is far too stiff-necked to smarm, and far too proud to beg. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Governor Andros warned me that you would be stubborn and stiff-necked!. From Wordnik.com. [The Tree That Saved Connecticut] Reference
Besides, you stiff-necked thistle head, you could have gotten yourself killed. From Wordnik.com. [Who Mourns For Adonais?] Reference
He didn't want it, but I thought he was just being ... is stiff-necked the word?. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
He kept turning his head from side to side, stiff-necked, like a mechanical thing. From Wordnik.com. [Killing Floor]
It was not for their righteousness, for they were a stiff-necked people, Deut. ix. From Wordnik.com. [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference
Her vivacity, beauty and brains have conquered even the notoriously stiff-necked Beatrix. From Wordnik.com. [Fractured Fairy Tales] Reference
Its wood was notorious, making people get stiff-necked and condemnatory without good reason. From Wordnik.com. [Stork Naked]
It helps the play; for bigoted and stiff-necked as Pentheus is, one must point up his integrity. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
Simpson, stung sharply in his stiff-necked pride, sprang up and took one step forward, his fist raised. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
It's analogous to correcting a rebellious adolescent; and it's met with the same stiff-necked stupidity. From Wordnik.com. [Stan Goff: Getting Off the Road] Reference
It's what they deserve for their stiff-necked, irrational resistance to climate change, among other sins. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Katovsky: The White House Can Become the Green House Under Gore] Reference
Both were stiff-necked Calvinists, who cited scripture to justify slavery and colour-class discrimination. From Wordnik.com. [Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Ch.1] Reference
Gad, sir, I'll fill this oak tree with stiff-necked rebellious Connecticut men, but I'll have that charter!. From Wordnik.com. [The Tree That Saved Connecticut] Reference
Pharaoh, and yet, stiff-necked generation that ye are, ye stay from the banquet and then complain of hunger!. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841] Reference
Israelites ate angels 'food in the wilderness, and remained stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
When I think on my former resistance and stiff-necked behaviour in the work of conversion, I could strike myself. From Wordnik.com. [The Moravians in Labrador] Reference
Costello shifted in the direction of his lawyer, George W. Vandivoort IV, the stiff-necked fellow at the defense table. From Wordnik.com. [Courting Trouble]
On this unconditional surrender, Nebuchadrezzar determined never again to be troubled by stiff-necked, rebellious Judah. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference
This was his name among a stiff-necked people, an idolatrous, ungrateful people; this is his name to me alike in character. From Wordnik.com. [The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham.] Reference
Now, however, the union bosses are no longer content with being stiff-necked about work rules and other contractual issues. From Wordnik.com. [Race to the Bottom] Reference
He stood to allow Haradinaj to slip into the window seat, then buckled himself in again and resumed his stiff-necked reading. From Wordnik.com. [House of War] Reference
Missionary literature is very severe on Arabia as a stiff-necked country which has hitherto discouraged evangelical activities. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
If at times the antagonism between artists and stiff-necked moralists produces its antic moments, the conflict is bad for the country. From Wordnik.com. [Fine Art Or Foul?] Reference
But if she protested, he would take it as further proof that she was stiff-necked; so she bit her tongue and answered him submissively. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
I, by contrast — indeed Ailsa, too, when she was alive — are (were) rather shy people who appear stiff-necked and pompous in company. From Wordnik.com. [Fox Evil]
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