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Meanings of so staid in English

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Usage of so staid in English
1
After seeing whom he was with, I understood why he seemed so staid.
Somewhere inside
2
She's too much her mother's child to enjoy anything so staid and respectable.
Quin
3
Lysandra was so staid she left herself open for wit almost all the time.
Imperatrix
4
The reason of this conduct in so staid and proper-minded an animal is obvious.
My Tropic Isle
5
He remembered Marmie's telling him not to look so staid.
Death Trance
6
He was sticking it to those old-fart-y institutions for being so staid, boring, and exclusionary.
Stunning
7
And then what danger was there with the Nabob, so staid a man and so ugly?
The Nabob
8
Who so staid and respectable as Madam?
Punch, or the London Charivari, July 1, 1914
9
For now the end of Hodgson's England, so staid at times, will linger as a genuinely rare and refined humiliation.
The Guardian
10
My worthy friend, Mrs. Bevis, thought one sermon a day, well observed, enough; so staid at home to bear me company.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6
11
It isn't a physically dynamic scenario, and it's hard to see how to open up a story that's so staid and limited.
The Verge
12
And so staid without a good while, and saw my Lady Peters, an impudent jade, soliciting all the Lords on her behalf.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
13
He was the beau- ideal of a county member,-sosleek, so staid, so business-like ;yetso clean, so neat, so much the gentleman.
Night and Morning, Volume 4
14
The king is served with much state and ceremonious respect, and his manners are so staid that it is very pleasing to see him.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume...
15
So staid within all day reading of two or three good plays.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 29: June/July 1664
16
"I thought she was much more-shealways seems to me so staid-so- somiddle-aged
The Making of a Soul
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So staid across language varieties
United Kingdom
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