单词	staid
释义	staidstaid /steɪd/ adjective Word Origin WORD ORIGINstaid Origin: 1500-1600 From the past participle of stay Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES staid scientific journals The group managed to seem staid in comparison to Rollins' music. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Because I was older and a bit more staid I was going to have a hard time. It was high time that her church-and the staid old-line Protestants-got a run for the money. Let us assume that Mr Peter Porter, an otherwise staid bureaucrat, spends his free time racing Porsche cars. She bought a long lease on the apartment in quiet and respectable Hahnwald, a leafy and staid suburb of Cologne. Square-cut and staid to behold, it packs a potent punch quite at odds with its looks. The staid and once-serious network news has begun to look like glitzy local news operations. The sentence I had just written in a staid serif typeface suddenly was pushed leeward. They are the men and women who start vibrant new companies, turn around failing companies, and shake up staid ones. serious, old-fashioned, and boring:  a staid old bachelor
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