Cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to.
Dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises.
Characterized by dignity and propriety.
Синонимы
Examples for "staid "
Examples for "staid "
1 Congress holds hundreds of hearings every year that are typically staid proceedings.
2 Soldiers had staid in the house at the time of the Revolution.
3 He went up into the meadow, and Watch staid in the kitchen.
4 Grandpapa took me in the cars, and I staid almost a week.
5 The others, water and fats and carbohydrates, are pretty stable and staid .
1 That did not mean, however, that the election was a sedate affair.
2 It is normally used by doctors to sedate patients for minor procedures.
3 They attracted universal attention from the old sedate down to the schoolboy.
4 All day, the anophelii came and went, their sedate , monkish manner shaken.
5 He wanted to shout at his friends, tell them to sedate him.
6 Edward was the eldest of the family, and quite sober and sedate .
7 A more sedate way of exploring the volcano's environs is by train.
8 In keeping with the sedate atmosphere, it petered out in the end.
9 Even so, most of the time he kept to a sedate pace.
10 Even as her mistress watched Emma got in carrying a sedate band-box.
11 We all think of the Bentley as a sedate sort of chariot.
12 Outwardly at least this sedate divine suggested nothing but the austerer virtues.
13 She was gentle and sedate as usual, but evidently absent and preoccupied.
14 In theory, our Ferrari is one of the company's more sedate models.
15 You and your books miss this, because your books are too sedate .
16 She was a sedate little maiden, and wonderfully wise for her years.
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