DeAndre Hopkins

My pinkie tends to pop out of place a lot while I'm playing - I just pop it back in. I notice it when I move my hand and it feels stiff. I mean, it's been happening my whole life. It's never broken - just pops out of place real easy.

American Athlete

Shaquille O'Neal

My father made me who I am. He gave me a basketball and told me to play with the ball, sleep with the ball, dream with the ball. Just don't take it to school. I used it as a pillow, and it never gave me a stiff neck.

Lynn Redgrave

And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.

British Actress

Drew Barrymore

Having fun is fantastic, and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work, or else it's going to feel stiff.

American Actress

Michael Bloomberg

We can only create good jobs if we make smarter investments in infrastructure and do more to support small businesses, not stiff them.

American Politician

Bob Keeshan

Just as actors are afraid of child audiences because they're so honest, I would be scared stiff of going before the big folks.

American Entertainer

Madonna Ciccone

Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.

American Musician

John C. Maxwell

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

American Clergyman

Ricardo Semler

The purpose of work is to make the worker - whether a working stiff or a CEO - feel good about life.

Brazilian Businessman

James Joyce

Irish Novelist

Used for describing things that are hard to bend or move due to tightness or tension.

Physical Objects

Movement that lacks ease or smoothness can be described as 'stiff'.

Not Fluid

Indicates that a task requires a lot of effort or skill to complete.

Demanding Tasks

Is often used to emphasize the severity or harshness of something.

Intensity

Amplifies the degree of an action or state, as in 'completely' or 'wholly'.

Emphasis on Total

Describes a person's behavior that seems forced or less natural.

Social Interaction

Can convey a sense of unease or strain in social contexts.

Discomfort

In informal contexts, 'stiff' can mean a dead body, typically in crime or darkly humorous situations.

Colloquial Use

 there's a large fissure that goes deep into the brain. And in that fissure, what you can't see in this image, you'll have to trust me, there is a fibrous sheet of tissue. It's called the falx, and it runs from the front of your head all the way to the back of your head, and it's quite stiff.

Why helmets don't...

 but I will let it kid with no license take over control of my vehicle system because we want to create we want to create the classroom of tomorrow we have stiff competition and we need to motivate and it's all being done if that

On exploring the oceans...

 my neck is is you know is stiff because i'm constantly spinning around brian is free diving meaning no scuba gear he's holding his breath but he can't get deep enough to get a good shot so he resurfaces and grabs his air tanks

The Secret Culture of...

 are missing and possibly the fingers are stiff environmental sensing computation and robotics begin to change this relationship and they allow us to construct landscapes that are natural or extra natural extensions of the

Creating living...

 Imagine a future where clothing is stiff and soft where you need it, when you need it, for optimal support and flexibility, without ever causing discomfort. My bionic limbs are attached to my biological body

New bionics let us run,...

 making everything look a little more stiff and serious, like in an encyclopedia or old books? Or how would it look, considering this book has so much gibberish, if I combined both universes in a single

Martina Flor: The secret...

 traveled many miles from all over northern India to seek his help I have four five lumps in my neck I get dizzy sometimes my eyes roll up my neck turned stiff but their woes appear to begin in

Exorcism In India PIPE...

 live scorpion to abandon his booty and hide itself the Shrew poo-poos the stiff he wants a piece of that live scorpion which is why this segment is now called when truths attack scorpions

Cannibal Scorpions vs....

 And I feel stiff and delirious and confused most of the time. I itch for my cell phone always. But it is OK. My tiny humans show me how to live and the hum of the universe fills me up.

My year of saying yes to...

 like a satellite dish specifically to detect sound a ring of stiff feathers channel the sound towards the true ears which are hidden at the side of the face

Stiff

Hardly moving, not flexible.

Often appears as...

More than average difficulty.

Often appears as...

Completely, extremely.

Often appears as...

Unnatural because of lack of relaxation.

Often appears as...

A person's dead body.

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