Dead
Stiff
Stiff adjective - Incapable of or highly resistant to bending.
Both words in one sentence
- Dutch Longrunner Police Procedural Baantjer had actors hired to play dead bodies and actual Dutch celebs would feature as stiff of the week.
Source: The Living Dead -
Most of the characters in Dead Space have short or no hair, except Kendra, whose long hair moves more like a piece of stiff fabric.
Source: No Flow in CGI -
Rock from Black Lagoon was a well-educated but otherwise dead-average working stiff until he crossed paths with the Lagoon Company.
Source: Ridiculously Average Guy
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Stiff and Dead. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/dead/stiff
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Stiff or Dead. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/dead/stiff.
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