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defeat after another with increasing stoicism.
stole n. tippet, scarf, boa, shawl: Mandy was too embarrassed to
wear her mink stole to the charity ball.
stolid adj. impassive, dull, doltish, obtuse, thick, dense, bovine,
wooden, slow, lumpish, unemotional, clod-like, phlegmatic,
lethargic, apathetic, indifferent, uninterested: He was a
stolid character, very different from his dynamic younger
brother.
stomach n. 1 abdomen, belly, gut, pot-belly, pot, paunch, Colloq
corporation, bay window, tummy, bread basket, spare tyre: His
huge stomach hung over and concealed his belt. 2 tolerance;
taste, appetite, desire, hunger, thirst, craving, need,
inclination, relish, longing, yearning, hankering: I have no
stomach for those TV sitcoms featuring precocious
four-year-olds.
--v. 3 abide, tolerate, endure, stand, bear, suffer, take,
accept, swallow, resign or reconcile oneself to, put up with,
countenance, brook, Brit stick: He walked out when he could no
longer stomach her continual criticism.
stony adj. 1 stoney, rocky, pebbly, shingly, shingled: Some of the
beaches along the Riviera are too stony to lie on directly. 2
stoney, hard, obdurate, adamant, adamantine, heartless,
stony-hearted, hard-hearted, indifferent, unsympathetic,
implacable, intractable, heartless, insensitive, insensible,
unfeeling, unsentimental, merciless, pitiless, cold,
cold-hearted, chilly, frigid, icy, tough, callous, steely,
inflexible, unresponsive, Colloq hard-boiled: He listened to
her pleadings in stony silence. 3 bankrupt, penniless,
indigent, poverty-stricken, poor, Colloq broke, Chiefly Brit
stoney, stony-broke or stoney-broke, skint: At the time, I was
so stony I didn't have two pennies to rub together.
stoop v. 1 Sometimes, stoop down. bend (down), bow, duck (down), lean
(down), hunch (down), hunker (down), crouch (down), scrunch
down: She had to stoop down to talk to the child. 2 Often,
stoop low. condescend, deign, lower or abase or degrade oneself,
sink, humble oneself; be demeaned or diminished: She had to
stoop pretty low to accept a job paying only half of what she