stagy
Americanadjective
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- stagily adverb
- staginess noun
- unstagily adverb
- unstaginess noun
- unstagy adjective
Etymology
Origin of stagy
Example Sentences
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But it seemed kind of stagy and, after a while, grew tiresome.
From Los Angeles Times
Every awkwardly declarative, stagy scene in “Bonhoeffer” is just a right-against-wrong equation to be answered by the title character’s virtue.
From Los Angeles Times
This framing device, which has the clunky air of a middlebrow play, provides a convenient if stagy way of breaking down his biography into manageable parts.
From Los Angeles Times
With the exception of James Gray’s more cinematically composed “Armageddon Time,” the movies have offered simple, stagy showcases for Hopkins, a lion in winter.
From Seattle Times
An ambitious period piece given an appropriately vintage look by the cinematographer Robert Patrick Stern, “Brooklyn 45” is overlong, repetitive and at times wearyingly stagy.
From New York Times
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