Having characteristics of the stage especially an artificial and mannered quality.
1If I detest anything, it is the unconventional, the stagy, the mysterious.
2For example, the comings and goings of Daland are fearfully stagy.
3Mr. Collins is generally dramatic, and sometimes stagy, in his effects.
4Everything here is so heightened and stagy, it can be frustrating.
5But all she ever got was a stagy, affected counterfeit.
6There was a stagy quality to his irrational act.
7Compared with "The Valkyrie," "The Flying Dutchman" is ill-contrived and stagy.
8It's what makes Irish TV comedy seem so stagy.
9He told her he loved it twice as well as the stilted, stagy "Anita Adair."
10It's a rather stagy throne, the Wolfburghs!
11Whatever else you might say about Beasts of the Southern Wild, you couldn't accuse it of being stagy.
12One was singing; two were chanting; the other two seemed merely to be speaking, though in stagy, artificial tones.
13The thing is ludicrously stagy.
14Paulson gave a stagy, "who me?" shrug.
15The stagy characters, holed up in a cliched creepy seaside boarding house, seem cloned off scrambled memories of The Addams Family.
16But his first heat spent he soon cooled down, and was able to laugh at the stagy explosiveness of his attitude.