Significados de very staid en inglés

A very staid, old-fashioned footman answered his ring and inquired his business.

They are very staid people, and think only of work, I believe.

Meanwhile, an analyst says annual meeting are becoming very staid affairs.

Often video calls can be very staid and humourless.

She is very staid, and we think she might possibly act as school-mistress in the future.

Dave and Belle were chatting, too, but what they said wouldn't interest very staid old people.

You have been rash to trust yourself in the hands of so very staid and demure a person.

He had rugged features beneath a pair of dark sunglasses and a very staid black suit and tie.

She evinced a brief, but violent emotion; and then controlled her features to a very staid and matronly expression.

A boy of fifteen, William Rogers, who is very staid, comes every morning to fetch water and chop wood.

They came back after a few hours looking very staid, but didn't seem to have the slightest idea where they had been.

So white, so young, and so calm, her every movement was harmonious, her appearance at once very staid, very noble, and very rhythmical.

Her letters to her mother were very staid and respectful, but there were accounts of dinners and evening parties and two or three weddings.

Joining his mother in Liverpool when he was 17, his impression was of somewhere " very staid; a small country of quaint ways".

And so, to reassure her, I uncovered and besought her, after a very staid fashion, to put me on my way to Great Missenden.

Another: Very staid, intelligent-like person, with a steady kind of anxiety, but, I fear, no feeling of helplessness.