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How to use stagy in a sentence
He condemns all that is affected or stagy; indeed his whole book is an eloquent plea for quiet and restraint.
THE SOUNDS OF SPOKEN ENGLISHWALTER RIPPMANN"Mebbe the gentleman can direct us to a good hotel," she added, with a rather stagy smile.
SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATEEARL DERR BIGGERSIf I detest anything, it is the unconventional, the stagy, the mysterious.
THE FIREFLY OF FRANCEMARION POLK ANGELLOTTIAnd they hire stage actors to interpret the stagiest of stage plots in as stagy a way as they know how.
A LIBRARIAN'S OPEN SHELFARTHUR E. BOSTWICK"Go on up-stairs and dress," she said in a stagy voice when we had come within earshot.
AT THE AGE OF EVEKATE TRIMBLE SHARBERAnd the dénouement, where everything comes right, is a little stagy.
A HISTORY OF THE FRENCH NOVEL, VOL. 2GEORGE SAINTSBURYMr. Collins is generally dramatic, and sometimes stagy, in his effects.
THE PURCELL PAPERSJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANUHe told her he loved it twice as well as the stilted, stagy "Anita Adair."
WE CAN'T HAVE EVERYTHINGRUPERT HUGHESFor his plot, Mr. Zangwill relies upon a very stagy coincidence.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 146, FEBRUARY 18, 1914VARIOUSThe attorney brushed back his mane with a stagy movement of his hand, and turned upon Arkansas.
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WORDS RELATED TO STAGY
- bombastic
- declamatory
- dramatic
- elaborate
- elocutionary
- eloquent
- expressive
- fervid
- forceful
- gesticulative
- gesturing
- grandiloquent
- histrionic
- impassioned
- important
- imposing
- inflated
- lofty
- long-winded
- loud
- noble
- noisy
- orotund
- ostentatious
- persuasive
- pompous
- senatorial
- stagy
- stentorian
- stylistic
- theatrical
- tumid
- verbose
- vivid
- adult
- artificial
- been around
- blasé
- bored
- citified
- cool
- couth
- cultivated
- cynical
- disenchanted
- disillusioned
- experienced
- in
- in the know
- into
- jaded
- jet-set
- knowing
- laid-back
- mature
- mondaine
- on to
- practical
- practiced
- refined
- schooled
- seasoned
- sharp
- skeptical
- smooth
- stagy
- streetwise
- studied
- suave
- svelte
- switched on
- uptown
- urbane
- well-bred
- wise to
- wised up
- with it
- world-weary
- worldly
- worldly wise
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.