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  • adjective having stiff hair

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Examples

  • Let's face it, he'd never been there for me, and she was a stiff-haired nightmare.

    Undead and Unworthy Davidson, MaryJanice 2008

  • That red-brown visage, square, stiff-haired head, and powerful frame — what a contrast to the pale, slim face and form of

    The Silver Spoon 2004

  • His forearms rested, brawny and stiff-haired, on his desk.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • Two looked like pug dogs, two rather like stiff-haired terriers with overslung lower jaws, and one was the image of Wallace.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • Two looked like pug dogs, two rather like stiff-haired terriers with overslung lower jaws, and one was the image of Wallace.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • There was a certain amount of preliminary circling, growling, and sniffing, stiff-legged and stiff-haired, before each side discovered that the other had no intention of initiating an attack and then Zu-tag told Go-lat what he had seen among the lairs of the Gomangani.

    Tarzan the Untamed 1920

  • Norvin made friends with a surly, stiff-haired dog, then with a patriarchal old goat which he found grazing atop a wall, and at last he encountered Francesca bearing a bundle of fagots upon her head.

    The Net Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • On the pack-leader's right flank ran a sturdy wolf of a darker colour than his fellows -- nearly black, indeed, on the top of his head, over his shoulders, and along his stiff-haired backbone.

    The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

  • The slab is cleaned, and the sample collected with the help of a stiff-haired brush.

    A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886

  • A narrow-eyed, stiff-haired Dutch maid of honor before whom she was standing gazed at her with staring vacancy.

    Tales of Trail and Town Bret Harte 1869

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