Thesaurus / stagy

stagy

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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.

THE FIREFLY OF FRANCEMARION POLK ANGELLOTTI

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.

AT THE AGE OF EVEKATE TRIMBLE SHARBER

And the dénouement, where everything comes right, is a little stagy.

Mr. Collins is generally dramatic, and sometimes stagy, in his effects.

THE PURCELL PAPERSJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU

He told her he loved it twice as well as the stilted, stagy "Anita Adair."

For his plot, Mr. Zangwill relies upon a very stagy coincidence.

The attorney brushed back his mane with a stagy movement of his hand, and turned upon Arkansas.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985