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Antonyms for stagy


Grammar : Adj
Spell : stey-jee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsteɪ dʒi



Definition of stagy

  • As in melodramatic : adj extravagant in speech, behavior
  • As in precious : adj extremely sophisticated and picky
  • As in sophisticated : adj cosmopolitan, cultured
  • As in oratorical : adj rhetorical
Example sentences :
  • He seized Bella and hugged her to his bosom in a most stagy manner.
  • Extract from : « Ruth Fielding Down East » by Alice B. Emerson
  • He told her he loved it twice as well as the stilted, stagy "Anita Adair."
  • Extract from : « We Can't Have Everything » by Rupert Hughes
  • If I detest anything, it is the unconventional, the stagy, the mysterious.
  • Extract from : « The Firefly Of France » by Marion Polk Angellotti
  • The attorney brushed back his mane with a stagy movement of his hand, and turned upon Arkansas.
  • Extract from : « The Walking Delegate » by Leroy Scott
  • I felt a chill go over me—the whole business was tricky, stagy; of a piece with the highfalutin talk.
  • Extract from : « Plain Mary Smith » by Henry Wallace Phillips
  • He condemns all that is affected or stagy; indeed his whole book is an eloquent plea for quiet and restraint.
  • Extract from : « The Sounds of Spoken English » by Walter Rippmann
  • Perhaps this was because he had purged himself of the stagy element in his abundant theatric exercise earlier.
  • Extract from : « A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 » by George Saintsbury
  • And they hire stage actors to interpret the stagiest of stage plots in as stagy a way as they know how.
  • Extract from : « A Librarian's Open Shelf » by Arthur E. Bostwick
  • "Go on up-stairs and dress," she said in a stagy voice when we had come within earshot.
  • Extract from : « At the Age of Eve » by Kate Trimble Sharber

Synonyms for stagy

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