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Meanings of stagy in English

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

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Usage of stagy in English
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.
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5
But all she ever got was a stagy, affected counterfeit.
Mildred Pierce
6
There was a stagy quality to his irrational act.
The new yorker
7
Compared with "The Valkyrie," "The Flying Dutchman" is ill-contrived and stagy.
Old Scores and New Readings: Discussions on Music & Certain Musi...
8
It's what makes Irish TV comedy seem so stagy.
The Irish Times
9
He told her he loved it twice as well as the stilted, stagy "Anita Adair."
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
10
It's a rather stagy throne, the Wolfburghs!
Frances Waldeaux: A Novel
11
Whatever else you might say about Beasts of the Southern Wild, you couldn't accuse it of being stagy.
The Irish Times
12
One was singing; two were chanting; the other two seemed merely to be speaking, though in stagy, artificial tones.
The Great Book of Amber
13
The thing is ludicrously stagy.
Old Scores and New Readings: Discussions on Music & Certain Musi...
14
Paulson gave a stagy, "who me?" shrug.
The passage
15
The stagy characters, holed up in a cliched creepy seaside boarding house, seem cloned off scrambled memories of The Addams Family.
The Irish Times
16
But his first heat spent he soon cooled down, and was able to laugh at the stagy explosiveness of his attitude.
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