Sample Sentences forstaid (editor-reviewed)
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She is from a staid, conservative family.staid = conservative and low-keyed in behavior -- possibly a bit dull
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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. (source)staid = conservative
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he seems kind of staid and school-teachery. (source)staid = conservative and low-keyed (probably dull)
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Wei was about forty years old and had the look of a staid, honest intellectual.† (source)
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They came out into the Old Town, with its massive staid town houses from the turn of the century.† (source)
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Even staid, prissy Thoreau, who famously declared that it was enough to have "traveled a good deal in Concord," felt compelled to visit the more fearsome wilds of nineteenth-century Maine and climb Mt. Katahdin.† (source)
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ROY' enters on a staircase, his side parting now super-aggressive, his robes just a little bit too short, his clothes now spectacularly staid.† (source)
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In the shadow of his teacher an extra staidness had fallen over the young divinity student, and his smile was lukewarm with dignity.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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These two small, protective figures, sitting staidly under their small roof—what a power they had!† (source)
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But tell me, wench, how will the world repute me For undertaking so unstaid a journey?† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unstaid means not and reverses the meaning of staid. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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One of them was Armstrong House, a monumental Italian Renaissance palazzo directly across Bull Street from the staid Oglethorpe Club.† (source)
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He achieved a staidness, and calmness, and philosophic tolerance.† (source)
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She swam staidly backwards and forwards while the others got up to their larks, and now and then turned on her back to float.† (source)
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If ever thou shalt love, In the sweet pangs of it remember me: For, such as I am, all true lovers are; Unstaid and skittish in all motions else, Save in the constant image of the creature That is belov'd.† (source)
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They were so staid looking.† (source)
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Sancho had not thought it worth while to hobble Rocinante, feeling sure, from what he knew of his staidness and freedom from incontinence, that all the mares in the Cordova pastures would not lead him into an impropriety.† (source)
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