stick by

Verb

Meaning

be loyal to

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

stick adhere stick with second support back help hold maintain aid stay favor defend encourage assist
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Antonyms

jilt default contradict abandon abjure break with
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Hypernyms

be

Examples

Normally, small talk is enough for me to form an opinion of someone. I make quick judgments, often completely wrong, and then stick by them rigidly. Alex Garland

The silliest and most tendentious of baseball writing tries to wrest profundity from the spectacle of grown men hitting a ball with a stick by suggesting linkages between the sport and deep issues of morality, parenthood, history, lost innocence, gentleness, and so on, seemingly ad infinitum. Stephen Jay Gould

If you're looking for the full deal, the till-death deal, then look at me. No one's ever going to love you, stick by you, understand how you work the way I do. (Malcolm Kavanaugh) Nora Roberts

My parents are always supportive of anything their kids do. They point out the pros and cons, but they let you make your own decisions, and when it's bad they stick by you. Eleanor Mondale

She stood by her husband in times of trouble Source: Internet

The friends stuck together through the war Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

stick at it stick at nothing stick boy stick caddis stick candy stick cinnamon