stiff-backed

English

Adjective

stiff-backed (comparative more stiff-backed, superlative most stiff-backed)

  1. obstinate
    • 1855, John Henry Newman, Callista:
      Do you fall in with some sour-visaged, stiff-backed worshipper of the Furies?

References

“stiff-backed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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