stagey
adjective
a variant of stagy.
Example Sentences
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The staginess that sinks many of his other pictures portended a digital age where all images would trend toward idealized, Photoshopped perfection.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Yes, there’s a staginess to it all: the quintet sitting around on the floor husking vegetables, dismantling a chicken, dining.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2022
There’s a certain staginess but, overall, the feel of an intricate literary machine situated squarely, in its characters and plot, on the fault lines of contemporary debates about technology.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2019
He wanted nothing phony: no infallible fathers, no staginess, no hammy dialogue, no fake kids.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 13, 2016
He looks like a rock star, but he has none of a rock star’s swagger and braggadocio and staginess.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
