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[ stey-jee ] / ˈsteɪ dʒi /
adjective, stag·i·er, stag·i·est.Words nearby stageystage screw, stage setting, stagestruck, stage wait, stage whisper, stagey, stagflation, Stagg, staggard, stagger, staggerbush Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for stageyThat he believes charm, soft words, candlelight, good wine, and stagey entrances will overpower ideas, ideology, and partisanship. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?|John Batchelor|January 13, 2009|DAILY BEAST The picture appears to me to be in feeling unreal, stagey—not to say, ridiculous. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton|Mrs. Russell Barrington Despair bred an idea in her mind; a mad one, perhaps, a stagey one certainly. When Ghost Meets Ghost|William Frend De Morgan A man of the world would have known the studied quaver in the voice—the throaty, stagey sweetness of it. Despair's Last Journey|David Christie Murray
She laughed a little hollow laugh—a poor little, weak, stagey giggle. The Pit Town Coronet, Volume II (of 3)|Charles James Wills Grotesque scene-painting should be abolished together with the stagey villain who can create no illusion of wickedness. August Strindberg, the Spirit of Revolt|L. (Lizzy) Lind-af-Hageby
British Dictionary definitions for stagey
adjective stagier or stagiesta variant spelling (in the US) of stagy Derived forms of stageystagily, adverbstaginess, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |