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Synonyms for stony

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for stony

abounding in rocks or stones

showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings

hard as granite

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Overlord Ron Dennis, the man second only to his father Anthony in the story of Hamilton's career, could not raise himself to do anything other than look on stonily at the podium ceremony as those around him applauded.
Alf Wilson, greeted us stonily. He pointed towards some trees where sulphur-crested cockatoos were beginning their sunset shriek.
12--At the moment; the most important promoting approach of the comfrey despite the years of experience and change; is government and nasal approach that based on the present stonily and path analysis findings; there is anteed to change these approaches to social and cooperative models since the experts themselves believe that in the process of running sustainable agricultural development model; the farmers should participate and this needs essential changes in the current attitude of agriculture ministry.
His pet parrot, an evil old bird, stared stonily down from his cage outside the pub, trained by Downey to be silent - until a bald-headed police inspector with a down on Downey appeared, the signal for a foul-mouthed attack on all police, bald-headed inspectors in particular, in a voice uncannily like Downey's.
presented itself most glaringly in the guise of perpetrators who stonily.recounted acts of unfathomable barbarity, counting on this 'truth' to pay their debt, purchase amnesty and settle the demands of responsibility.[this] led some South Africans to regard the TRC's 'truth for amnesty' deal as ...
The ex-MSP went on to stonily cross-examine former friends, alleged lovers and political allies.
The city fathers sit stonily atop banks, and grotesque faces leer from baroque facades.
While Storm and broader left-wing aesthetics in the 1930s were engaged in fractious debates about the appropriate form and content for radical literary art, the state agencies deployed to monitor these revolutionary movements were stonily indifferent to any such concerns.
But the storm was stonily ignored by the embassy whose spokesperson said she would not dignify the allegations by deigning to comment on them.
It is stonily silent on climate change with domestic audiences, and a notorious foot-dragger in international negotiations.
She stonily reiterated that the bank had no liability under the law.
She sat herself stonily in her big blue chair and waited.
And now, five decades after the Kishangarh royals had vacated the fort, they stood stonily silent, as if sworn to secrecy.
But her women are stonily apolitical and intellectually disengaged.