Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a staid manner; calmly; soberly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a staid manner, sedately.
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- adverb In a
staid manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a grave and sober manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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To return to the Deane-Balderston play after seeing "Buffy," Kathryn Bigelow's "Near Dark" and Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 "Dracula" film is to find it very weak tea indeed, a staidly talky telling of the old, old story in which the audience sits around waiting for something exciting, or even unexpected, to happen.
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On his left William Martel, his steward, and Robert de Vere, his constable, followed more staidly.
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So in those days before lent, when Catholic countries are filled with people wearing beads, tossing doubloons, donning festive masks, dancing in the streets and eating king cake, why do those radical and rebellious Anglicans mark the night before Lent by staidly eating a pile of pancakes?
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So in those days before lent, when Catholic countries are filled with people wearing beads, tossing doubloons, donning festive masks, dancing in the streets and eating king cake, why do those radical and rebellious Anglicans mark the night before Lent by staidly eating a pile of pancakes?
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But hey, after 30 years of staidly reliable Hondas, maybe it's time for Americans to rediscover Europhilia -- and re-establish a relationship with our mechanics.
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For one man, having a lack of imagining, would scoff, and another, maybe, to take it very staidly; but some would build Fancy upon the tellings of the
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In fact, other than a couple of people who took small amounts of money in brown paper envelopes and a couple of people who had affairs, they were rather staidly middle class.
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Gravely, sending in additional troops to Iraq, up to 5,000 more, is precisely what Rumsfeld has staidly ordered.
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We sat among the brook weed, half exposed to sun and air, and we watched fishes swim staidly beneath the surface.
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We sat among the brook weed, half exposed to sun and air, and we watched fishes swim staidly beneath the surface.
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