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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a stiff manner" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone's behavior or demeanor that is rigid, formal, or lacking in warmth.
Example: "During the meeting, she spoke in a stiff manner, making it difficult for others to engage with her ideas."
Alternatives: "a rigid demeanor" or "a formal approach".
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Some diseases cause postural changes: for example, a horse with tetanus may stand in a stiff manner.
He has broadcast virtually every night since June 25, making the transition from a borrowed camera and a stiff manner to dashing off short versions with his laptop while traveling.
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His stiff manner, combined with the presence of a reporter from Time magazine, and a Facebook photographer documenting the encounter, added to the sensation that the locals were playing parts in a performance directed by the company.
When he takes the head of the classroom, his weary, slightly stiff manner falls away, as the years melt from a veteran stage actor when the curtain rises.
After signing, Eastwood was criticized for his stiff manner, his squint, and for hissing his lines through his teeth, a feature that would become a lifelong trademark.
With his grey beard and stiff manner, Rajoy always comes off worse in popularity polls when compared with his more relaxed opponent.
Stiff changes in the first- and second-order spatial gradients were lessened by continuously moving nodes in a non-stiff manner.
When they met, poetry was suffering from a hangover induced by the bad habits of the 1940s, namely a stiff, over-serious, academic manner.
He speaks in a slightly stiff, respectful manner that suggests that he's used to conversing with adults.
Instead, he describes all the more familiar English traits — from a stiff upper lip to stoical humility, from good manners to a good sense of humor — as ingenious strategies for diffusing or deflecting anger.
Gatsby is a stiff, overly formal man -- he's learned his manners late and carefully, and they're almost ludicrous, sometimes, in their particularity.
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