stiffly
adverb
uk/ˈstɪf.li/us/ˈstɪf.li/stifflyadverb(FIRM)
straightand notbending:
笔挺地;僵直地Thesoldiersstoodstiffly toattention.士兵们笔挺地立正站着。
Hard and firm
- (as) stiff/straight as a ramrodidiom
- adamantine
- cast iron
- congealed
- crisp
- crisply
- erect
- firmness
- fossilized
- harden
- hardening
- hardness
- horny
- rigid
- rigidity
- rock-hard
- rock-solid
- stiff
- stiffness
- tense
stifflyadverb(NOT RELAXED)
in a way that is tooformal:
生硬地,拘谨地"I don'tthinkthat it's anything to do with you," he said stiffly.“我认为这和你一点儿关系都没有,”他生硬地说。
Manners & levels of formality
- buttoned-down
- casualization
- ceremonious
- ceremoniously
- ceremony
- formality
- formally
- genteel
- genteelly
- gentility
- grace
- mindyourp's and q'sidiom
- non-formal
- non-U
- not the done thingidiom
- over-familiar
- solemnity
- unbuttoned
- valediction
- valedictory
stifflyadverb(SEVERE)
UK
severely:
严厉地Iwrotea stifflywordedletterofcomplaintto thecouncil.我给委员会写了一封措词强硬的投诉信。
Severe
- an iron hand/fist in a velvet gloveidiom
- austere
- austerely
- authoritarian
- be heavy onsomeoneidiom
- brutally
- flaming
- harsh
- iron
- nonsense
- not stand any nonsenseidiom
- pitiless
- rigorously
- severity
- sharp
- sharpness
- stern
- sternly
- sternness
- strict