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Meanings of stagey in English

Having characteristics of the stage especially an artificial and mannered quality.

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Examples for "stagy"
1
If I detest anything, it is the unconventional, the stagy, the mysterious.
The Firefly of France
2
For example, the comings and goings of Daland are fearfully stagy.
Old Scores and New Readings: Discussions on Music & Certain Musi...
3
Mr. Collins is generally dramatic, and sometimes stagy, in his effects.
The Purcell Papers — Volume 1
4
Everything here is so heightened and stagy, it can be frustrating.
News.com.au
5
But all she ever got was a stagy, affected counterfeit.
Mildred Pierce
Usage of stagey in English
1
That one authentic story is worth a hundred dramatic tales of stagey heroism.
Side Lights
2
They had borrowed Carol's manuals of play-production and had become extremely stagey in vocabulary.
Main Street
3
There is a stagey whiff about this -are protesters or techies for real?
The Irish Times
4
They didn't give him a chance! His laugh was stagey.
Main Street
5
It's a heightened, sometimes stagey take on a trashy exploitation flick, but it is mesmerizing.
The Verge
6
Have them look real, you know, instead of stagey.
Jean of the Lazy A
7
Her voice, while clear, is hard, metallic, at intervals nasal, and all the while stagey.
Mary Anderson
8
The white marble of these somewhat stagey figures is beautifully worked and the effect is imposing.
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 / France and the Net...
9
I want to know about that stagey fellow.
Dorothy Dale's Camping Days
10
But this stagey device was not to succeed.
The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)
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She's afraid people will begin to think that extraordinary colourless charm she and you possess stagey.
The Woman with the Fan
12
Thou wert right as usual, it was theatrical how do you call stagey, is it not?
We Two: A Novel
13
At times McCarthy's famously operatic language edges towards parody, and the Western dialogue is stagey and inauthentic.
The Irish Times
14
Brando is lethally powerful, but I am ambivalent about Leigh's stagey, mad-eyed performance, often pitilessly inspected in closeup.
The Guardian
15
The lamp at her feet painted the tensely poised young body and bloodless face with quaint, stagey shadows.
Red Masquerade: Being the Story of the Lone Wolf's Daughter
16
The stagey strut was quite gone.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22...
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