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staidly

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staid  (std)
adj.
1. Characterized by sedate dignity and often a strait-laced sense of propriety; sober. See Synonyms at serious.
2. Fixed; permanent: "There is nothing settled, nothing staid in this universe" (Virginia Woolf).
[From obsolete staid, past participle of stay.]
staidly adv.
staidness n.
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Adv.1.staidly - in a grave and sober manner; "he walked soberly toward the altar"
gravely, soberly
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staidly
adv → gesetzt; dressed → gedeckt


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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.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
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