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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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