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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 is a staid accountant by day, but a wild partier at night.
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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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In the shadow of his teacher an extra staidness had fallen over the young divinity student, and his smile was lukewarm with dignity.† (source)
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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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Wei was about forty years old and had the look of a staid, honest intellectual.† (source)
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That feeble in the mind's eye, lean your trust Upon unstaid perverseness!† (source)unstaid = not conservative or low-keyedstandard 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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He achieved a staidness, and calmness, and philosophic tolerance.† (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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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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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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But tell me, wench, how will the world repute me For undertaking so unstaid a journey?† (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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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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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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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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