Synonym of stiff

rope in stacked deck run a game on pull a fast one fast talk scarify take for a ride take to cleaners meet under arch sell a bill of goods pulling one's leg take for ride scammed take out put on the cuff swindle beat around the bush pull fast one shortchange beating around the bush disburb double deal shafting curdle the blood default caboodle suckering make teeth chatter make one's blood run cold deprive have for skip out on chilled to the bone do number on chill to the bone run out on welch doublecross scared to death give bum steer do a number on victimise taking out take to the cleaners beat around bush ratting leave town pigeon have it in for victimize taking for ride strike terror into discriminate against scare the daylights out of scare to death cheat make one's hair stand on end worm one's way out of double cross snowed slip out hosing running out on frighten make blood run cold scare away see in the alley double dealing pull one's leg discriminated against cribbing put one over on bunco welsh shorts jerk around sandbag double-deal scare off stack the deck

body dead body corpse cadaver goner carcass

person soul individual guy bod

rigid firm inflexible unbending unbendable taut hard unyielding solid arthritic creaky stark tense thick tight wooden brittle buckram refractory rheumatic set annealed benumbed cemented chilled congealed contracted fixed frozen graceless hardened immalleable impliable incompliant indurate inelastic jelled mechanical numbed ossified petrified resistant solidified starched starchy steely stiff as a board stony thickened unflexible ungraceful unsupple

aching painful sore tender

severe drastic stringent excessive extreme steep harsh brisk heavy rigorous sharp strict strong vigorous great potent austere cruel exact exorbitant extravagant immoderate inexorable inordinate oppressive pitiless powerful towering unconscionable undue

demanding exacting arduous testing tough laborious difficult taxing uphill fatiguing formidable trying

robust intense

formal stuffy standoffish aloof stilted pompous cold angular artificial ceremonious constrained forced hardheaded headstrong intractable laboured labored mannered obstinate pertinacious priggish prim punctilious relentless stubborn uneasy ungainly unnatural unrelaxed unrelenting