staid

As the Roland Barthesque title indicates, “Keats’s Odes” is no staid, traditional work of literary commentary.

The superhero medium is so staid that temporary exposure to a black lead is considered groundbreaking.

New entryway plans look more Rodeo Drive than staid tropical hideaway.

The staid old NFL soon faced competition from the upstart AFL, which, of course, put a team in New York.

But for all its madcap zaniness, Woke Up Lonely easily refutes the idea that the novel is a staid, obsolete form of writing.

That's right, I said it: this is a landmark victory for the forces of staid, bourgeois sexual morality.

Lucy clapped her hands with delight, her more staid cousin was rapt in pleased astonishment.

After that the little girl staid mostly with the stewardess, and was comparatively happy.

How long they would have staid is uncertain if there had not come a second knock at the kitchen door.

My wife not very well went home, I staid late there seeing them play at cards, and so home to bed.

So home, calling in at my father's, but staid not, my father and mother being both forth.