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respectable or conservative, and low-keyed in behavior — possibly a bit dull

In older English novels by such authors as Charles Dickens or Jane Austen, you will also encounter staid as an alternative spelling of stayed (past tense of stay).

She is from a staid, conservative family.

staid = respectable or conservative, and low-keyed in behavior — possibly a bit dull

She is a staid accountant by day, but a wild partier at night.
Amsterdam's famously lax attitude toward drugs and sex belies the staid, insular nature of its society.
Eben Harrell -- Time.com, 7/11/10 -- http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2003098,00.html#ixzz0tWF47dFG (retrieved 07/12/10)
In no time you'll be a staid, middle-aged matron, and I shall be nice, old maid Aunt Anne, coming to visit you on vacations.
Montgomery, Lucy Maud -- Anne of The Island
Perhaps by the time you return to Paris, I shall be quite a sober, staid father of a family
Dumas, Alexandre -- The Count of Monte Cristo
...men in staid, hard brown or black, with gold watch chains and now and then a stick;
William Faulkner -- The Sound and the Fury

staid = conservative — possibly a bit dull

They were so staid looking.
Alice Walker -- The Color Purple

staid = respectable or conservative, and low-keyed in behavior — possibly a bit dull

he seems kind of staid and school-teachery.
Willa Cather -- O Pioneers!

staid = conservative and low-keyed (probably dull)

A staid housekeeper brought on bread to serve them,
Homer -- The Odyssey

staid = respectable and low-keyed (unobtrusive)

She looks so much like Catherine I catch my breath—the plane of her face, the cut of her hair, the slim thighs I've always imagined were under Catherine's staid skirts.
Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants

staid = conservative

a staid housekeeper brought the man his bread.
Homer -- The Odyssey
A staid housekeeper brought on bread to serve them,
Homer -- The Odyssey
A staid housekeeper brought on bread to serve them,
Homer -- The Odyssey
A staid housekeeper brought on bread to serve me,
Homer -- The Odyssey
A staid housekeeper brought on bread to serve him,
Homer -- The Odyssey
A staid housekeeper brought on bread to serve them,
Homer -- The Odyssey
Everything is staid and settled, for the country was one hundred years old when Columbus discovered America.
Twain, Mark -- The Innocents Abroad
Quite a staid, worn woman now.
Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
She swam staidly backwards and forwards while the others got up to their larks, and now and then turned on her back to float.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
As primly as the oldest, most staid scientist in the Institute, Martin protested, "Oh, she belongs to very nice family.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith

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