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Meanings of very staid in English

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Usage of very staid in English
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A very staid, old-fashioned footman answered his ring and inquired his business.
The Crimson Blind
2
They are very staid people, and think only of work, I believe.
A Little Girl in Old Quebec
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Meanwhile, an analyst says annual meeting are becoming very staid affairs.
Radio NZ
4
Often video calls can be very staid and humourless.
The South African
5
She is very staid, and we think she might possibly act as school-mistress in the future.
Three Years in Tristan da Cunha
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Dave and Belle were chatting, too, but what they said wouldn't interest very staid old people.
The High School Pitcher; or, Dick & Co. on the Gridley Diamond
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You have been rash to trust yourself in the hands of so very staid and demure a person.
Framley Parsonage
8
He had rugged features beneath a pair of dark sunglasses and a very staid black suit and tie.
James Potter and the Vault of Destinies
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She evinced a brief, but violent emotion; and then controlled her features to a very staid and matronly expression.
Rattlin the Reefer
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A boy of fifteen, William Rogers, who is very staid, comes every morning to fetch water and chop wood.
Three Years in Tristan da Cunha
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They came back after a few hours looking very staid, but didn't seem to have the slightest idea where they had been.
A Set of Six
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So white, so young, and so calm, her every movement was harmonious, her appearance at once very staid, very noble, and very rhythmical.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 1
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Her letters to her mother were very staid and respectful, but there were accounts of dinners and evening parties and two or three weddings.
A Little Girl in Old Boston
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Joining his mother in Liverpool when he was 17, his impression was of somewhere " very staid; a small country of quaint ways".
The Guardian
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And so, to reassure her, I uncovered and besought her, after a very staid fashion, to put me on my way to Great Missenden.
Essays of Travel
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Another: Very staid, intelligent-like person, with a steady kind of anxiety, but, I fear, no feeling of helplessness.
The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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