stiffly [
'stɪflɪ]
ad. 呆板地, 顽固地, 僵硬地
stiffly[ adv ]- in a stiff manner
<adv.all>
his hands lay stiffly
- in a rigid manner
<adv.all>
the body was rigidly erect
he sat bolt upright
Stiffly \Stiff"ly\, adv.
In a stiff manner.
- Several new likenesses are three stories high, including one enormous statue of Saddam Hussein standing stiffly at attention, his arm outstretched at a 45 degree angle.
- No, replied Gardner, who stiffly denied Casey and Poindexter were feeding Congress a cover story.
- Several of them attend too much to surface details - brightly intense facial expressions and stiffly fidgety gestures - and too little to the fomenting Romantic energies beneath. But, as Karl, Dominic Taylor delivers a superb performance.