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What does stony mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word stony? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. As hard as stone.
  2. Containing or made up of stones.
  3. (figuratively) Of a person, lacking warmth and emotion.
  4. (figuratively) Of an action such as a look, showing no warmth of emotion.
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Throughout May Churchill continued to get a stony reception from the Conservative benches.
The floor was very stony, and her feet, covered only in silken slippers, began to get sore and she could feel a blister began to rise.
For day after day south of Marzuk we saw nothing but stony wastes and sand dunes with never a blade of grass or bush to relieve the aridity.
The stony surface was tainted with red iron and calcium, something that I had learned in school.
The harsh and simple answer to why Scotland voted to be absorbed in 1707 is because it was bankrupt, stony broke.
The stony soil below was covered by dense forests of live oak, Douglas fir, aspen, maple, ponderosa pine, madrone, Arizona cypress, and juniper.

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