Stiff-backed

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    obstinate

    "Do you fall in with some sour-visaged, stiff-backed worshipper of the Furies?"

Adjective
  1. 1
    having a stiff back wordnet

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"Do you fall in with some sour-visaged, stiff-backed worshipper of the Furies?"

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