Staid
adjective
Serious, boring and a bit old-fashioned.
She's a rather staid and uninteresting person.
Often appears as...
- staid manner
- staid personality
adjective
Serious, boring and a bit old-fashioned.
She's a rather staid and uninteresting person.
Often appears as...
- staid manner
- staid personality
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Nuance
Staid often has a slightly negative tone, suggesting dullness and lack of excitement.
The dinner party was rather staid, with very formal conversation.
Pro Tip 2/3Older Generations
Staid can imply traits associated with older people who are resistant to change.
My grandfather has staid values that he's not willing to reconsider.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Contexts
Use 'staid' to describe environments or events that are formal and resist anything improper.
The gala was a staid affair, with everyone strictly following etiquette.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Nuance
Staid often has a slightly negative tone, suggesting dullness and lack of excitement.
The dinner party was rather staid, with very formal conversation.
Pro Tip 2/3Older Generations
Staid can imply traits associated with older people who are resistant to change.
My grandfather has staid values that he's not willing to reconsider.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Contexts
Use 'staid' to describe environments or events that are formal and resist anything improper.
The gala was a staid affair, with everyone strictly following etiquette.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Nuance
Staid often has a slightly negative tone, suggesting dullness and lack of excitement.
The dinner party was rather staid, with very formal conversation.
Pro Tip 2/3Older Generations
Staid can imply traits associated with older people who are resistant to change.
My grandfather has staid values that he's not willing to reconsider.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Contexts
Use 'staid' to describe environments or events that are formal and resist anything improper.
The gala was a staid affair, with everyone strictly following etiquette.
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full of cousins. And some of them are going to be great, and some of them are going to be irritating, but they're all related to me. So this email inspired me to dive into genealogy, which I always thought was a very staid and proper field, but it turns out it's going through a fascinating
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Being Glenn Curtiss PIPE...
industry warmer over the idea of aviation was stopped there was no speed there was no momentum there was no moving forward until the Wright brothers got their way and their way was staid it was not flexible there was no movement
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The world's largest...
full of cousins. And some of them are going to be great, and some of them are going to be irritating, but they're all related to me. So this email inspired me to dive into genealogy, which I always thought was a very staid and proper field, but it turns out it's going through a fascinating
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Being Glenn Curtiss PIPE...
industry warmer over the idea of aviation was stopped there was no speed there was no momentum there was no moving forward until the Wright brothers got their way and their way was staid it was not flexible there was no movement
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David Blunkett
British Politician
If you have a sense of irony or humour, you're usually cut down, as you're usually distorted or misinterpreted. So it does lead to us being slightly more dour and staid and predictable than would otherwise be the case, which I personally find quite frustrating - because if you don't laugh occasionally in my job, you cry most of the time.
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Gary Kemp
British Musician
Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that.
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Kurt Eichenwald
American Editor
By the dawn of the millennium, the hallways at Microsoft were no longer home to barefoot programmers in Hawaiian shirts working through nights and weekends toward a common goal of excellence; instead, life behind the thick corporate walls had become staid and brutish.
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Colum McCann
Irish Writer
It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and nothing ever solidifies, no matter how middle-class, housebroken, staid, and solitary someone's life seems to be. That, I think, is what I'm writing about.
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Matt Bomer
American Actor
I consider 'White Collar' my home base. I'm so lucky to get to play a character that's very multifaceted and the writers take risks on and never get into a staid process with.
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Margot Kidder
American Actress
We were sweet, lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you're young you think that's how life works.
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Mark Cuban
American Businessman
We can't ever forget that the Internet now is just a staid utility. The exciting platforms are software applications that are very, very simple.
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Neil Cavuto
American Journalist
I'm not staid and unbiased here. I have certain biases I want to convey, and if you disagree, that's fine.
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Mason Cooley
American Writer
Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
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Kathy Acker
American Activist
I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.
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David Blunkett
British Politician
If you have a sense of irony or humour, you're usually cut down, as you're usually distorted or misinterpreted. So it does lead to us being slightly more dour and staid and predictable than would otherwise be the case, which I personally find quite frustrating - because if you don't laugh occasionally in my job, you cry most of the time.
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Gary Kemp
British Musician
Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that.
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Kurt Eichenwald
American Editor
By the dawn of the millennium, the hallways at Microsoft were no longer home to barefoot programmers in Hawaiian shirts working through nights and weekends toward a common goal of excellence; instead, life behind the thick corporate walls had become staid and brutish.
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Colum McCann
Irish Writer
It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and nothing ever solidifies, no matter how middle-class, housebroken, staid, and solitary someone's life seems to be. That, I think, is what I'm writing about.
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Matt Bomer
American Actor
I consider 'White Collar' my home base. I'm so lucky to get to play a character that's very multifaceted and the writers take risks on and never get into a staid process with.
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Margot Kidder
American Actress
We were sweet, lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you're young you think that's how life works.
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Mark Cuban
American Businessman
We can't ever forget that the Internet now is just a staid utility. The exciting platforms are software applications that are very, very simple.
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Neil Cavuto
American Journalist
I'm not staid and unbiased here. I have certain biases I want to convey, and if you disagree, that's fine.
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Mason Cooley
American Writer
Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
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Kathy Acker
American Activist
I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.
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