staidly
adverb
staidness
noun
staid
2 of 2past tense and past participle of stay
Examples of staid in a Sentence
Adjective
a staid and solemn businessman
everyone was surprised by the racy joke from the usually staid professor
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Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 14 Oct. 2025
Crossbodies with flaps, one of the most staid and practical silhouettes on the market, popped up over and over again on the fall runways, including at Khaite, Burberry, and Calvin Klein.
—Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 8 Oct. 2025
Much of the composition is given to the trio of commissioners who, tasked with investigating charges of bias in the trial, upheld the verdict—their faces sagging and stony, their staid officiousness echoing the resolute lines of the courthouse behind them.
—Nicole Rudick, The New York Review of Books, 2 Oct. 2025
Characters archly comment on proceedings directly to camera at some points and retreat into the staid distance of historical drama at others, as passages of seemingly earnest melodrama crash abruptly into broad-brush contemporary satire.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 20 Sep. 2025
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Adjective
Chance’s production is deceivingly straightforward and staid.
—Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 14 Oct. 2025
Crossbodies with flaps, one of the most staid and practical silhouettes on the market, popped up over and over again on the fall runways, including at Khaite, Burberry, and Calvin Klein.
—Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 8 Oct. 2025
Much of the composition is given to the trio of commissioners who, tasked with investigating charges of bias in the trial, upheld the verdict—their faces sagging and stony, their staid officiousness echoing the resolute lines of the courthouse behind them.
—Nicole Rudick, The New York Review of Books, 2 Oct. 2025
Characters archly comment on proceedings directly to camera at some points and retreat into the staid distance of historical drama at others, as passages of seemingly earnest melodrama crash abruptly into broad-brush contemporary satire.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 20 Sep. 2025
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“Staid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/staid. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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