stiff-lipped
/ˌstɪf ˈlɪpt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.75 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "There is no accessible public roll of the knights of the order. [...] At this moment any stiff-lipped impostor may enter the jeweller's shop at the corner of Essex-street and the Strand, furnish himself with an imitation cross, and parade his counterfeit hero-certificate with impunity."
- "Again, in art, who holds the scales of notice for the Academy and the Grosvenor, and such like exhibitions? [...] a stiff-lipped, white-faced man, no longer young, whose creed is that no good pictures were painted in the English school before 1880."
- "Stiff-lipped, stiff-haired, the father gave his orders to the man in red."
- "Twyla watched it all with the stiff-lipped shock he recalled seeing on patients when he had done his emergency medicine rotation. "Don't tell me," Rob said to her. "Let me guess. Your ex-husband.""
- "Radical youth, who later became educated liberals, saw in the old-school factory workers of his father's generation an image of stiff-lipped industrial union men as "the principal perpetrators of racism, sexism and narrow-mindedness in American society. [...]""
- "[T]he zippy musical numbers in which Mary Poppins (a stiff-lipped Emily Blunt) whisks cherubs Annabel, John, and Georgie (Pixie Davies, Nathanael Saleh, and Joel Dawson, respectively) away into colorful hyperreal fantasias impress."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌstɪf ˈlɪpt/
- British English: /ˌstɪf ˈlɪpt/
Inflected Forms
more stiff-lipped (comparative)
most stiff-lipped (superlative)