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Meanings of stiff formality in English

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Usage of stiff formality in English
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Poland walked unsteadily towards Bolitho and touched his hat with stiff formality.
The Only Victor
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Yet there was nothing of stiff formality about either Prescott or Anstey.
Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point / Or, Finding the Glor...
3
He still remained very cold, very forceful, although his stiff formality had vanished.
Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories
4
The stiff formality of his room would give me the creeps, if anything could.
Cecilia de Noël
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Suydam cursed at the stiff formality in the man's tone.
Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories
6
Her manner to guests increased in stiff formality; and she was excessively firm with undesirables.
The Old Wives' Tale
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Then compare the stiff formality of the modern Eskimo drawing (Fig.
Custom and Myth
8
It is equally inconsistent with a stiff formality, an impertinent forwardness, and an awkward bashfulness.
The Young Man's Guide
9
He liked the stiff formality of the room.
A Poor Wise Man
10
Janos noticed the stiff formality in the handshake.
House of Bathory
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His distaste for her was apparent in both the frown he wore and an air of stiff formality.
RUNNER
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Agrippa stood with stiff formality.
Song of the Nile
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There was a numbing routine to these official liaison meals: starched uniforms, exotic headdresses, fruit juice, smiles, and stiff formality.
Ghost wars
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The two troopers were still there; and these saluted Stanley, with less than the usual stiff formality of the Mohammedan soldier.
On the Irrawaddy: A Story of the First Burmese War
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The Commissary was a solemn person, full of the stiff formality exhibited by members of the French magistracy, the juniors especially.
The Passenger from Calais
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But Ratcliffe was not one to do his present duty with levity on his tongue, and he bowed with stiff formality.
Beatrix of Clare
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