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stagy
adjective as in artificial
adjective as in melodramatic
adjective as in pretentious
Strong match
Weak matches
- affected
- assuming
- aureate
- big
- bombastic
- chichi
- conspicuous
- euphuistic
- extravagant
- feigned
- flamboyant
- flashy
- flaunting
- flowery
- gaudy
- grandiloquent
- high-flown
- high-sounding
- highfalutin
- imposing
- inflated
- jazzy
- la-di-da
- lofty
- magniloquent
- mincing
- ornate
- overambitious
- puffed up
- put on
- rhetorical
- specious
- splashy
- swank
- too-too
- tumid
- utopian
- vainglorious
adjective as in theatrical
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Example Sentences
He condemns all that is affected or stagy; indeed his whole book is an eloquent plea for quiet and restraint.
"Mebbe the gentleman can direct us to a good hotel," she added, with a rather stagy smile.
If I detest anything, it is the unconventional, the stagy, the mysterious.
And they hire stage actors to interpret the stagiest of stage plots in as stagy a way as they know how.
"Go on up-stairs and dress," she said in a stagy voice when we had come within earshot.
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On this page you'll find 131 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stagy, such as: assumed, contrived, false, feigned, forced, and hollow.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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