staidly
adverb
staidness
noun
staid
2 of 2past tense and past participle of stay
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Adjective
a staid and solemn businessman
everyone was surprised by the racy joke from the usually staid professor
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Sage Lattman, airmail.news, 14 Sep. 2024
Pentecostalism was about two decades old at the time, and its early practices of interracial worship, speaking in tongues, and divine healing were subjects of lively conversation among the relatively staid and respectable churchmen of mainline Protestantism.
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 19 Aug. 2024
For well over 50 years, Progressive Insurance has acted like an upstart in the largely staid world of insurance.
—Stephen Wunker, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
Compared to the madness of other seasons from the Nineties, this was a rather staid one.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
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Adjective
Just a few blocks away is Calhoun’s more staid lower-school building.
—Sage Lattman, airmail.news, 14 Sep. 2024
Pentecostalism was about two decades old at the time, and its early practices of interracial worship, speaking in tongues, and divine healing were subjects of lively conversation among the relatively staid and respectable churchmen of mainline Protestantism.
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 19 Aug. 2024
For well over 50 years, Progressive Insurance has acted like an upstart in the largely staid world of insurance.
—Stephen Wunker, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
Compared to the madness of other seasons from the Nineties, this was a rather staid one.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
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“Staid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/staid. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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