steady-going
Example Sentences
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Just before Christmas in 1886, Harriette Flora, aged 17, married a steady-going 19-year-old Arkansas country boy named Carl Raymond Gray.
From Time Magazine Archive
Impartial House observers rate him thus: a steady-going unimaginative partisan plodder, thoroughly conservative in his fiscal policies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Throughout most of a typical performance, the English rock quartet called The Who live up to their own modest billing: "A good, steady-going, down-to-earth pop group."
From Time Magazine Archive
But New Jersey's steady-going Governor Charles Edison put a stop to that.
From Time Magazine Archive
I think you will disapprove, because for all your wild-West adventures, San Francisco earthquakes, etc., you are a steady-going old girl and object to such rampaging persons as this Carville.
From Aliens by McFee, William
