staid

How To Use staid In A Sentence

• Gone was the staid decor and mahogany wood typical of the menswear shops on Shaftesbury Avenue. Times, Sunday Times
• Many respectable scholars flirt with this stage, and some seem to delight in flaunting their embrace of it; their more staid colleagues are usually indulgent. Did you know that Jews control the Washington Post? [Bumped.] - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
• Last night's Lee vs. Kryzan debate was pretty staid, which is to say boring. WNYMedia
• There's nothing staid about the all-white La Scalinatella in Capri, one of the "airiest" hotels around with terraces that open onto the Mediterranean. Ten Must-Visit European Hotels
• Too staid for the formation of ripples, too swift for calm content, the river seemed to boil up from below in a kind of frolicsome rage. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
• New England in the 19th century was the apex of conformity: staid, stuffy and abstemious.
• There were still others where the notion frothed and foamed, turning up unexpected ideas, revealing depths of dissatisfaction, of desire, of unsuspected powers in woman that startled the staid old world. The Business of Being a Woman
• Some might consider the town to be a bit staid. Times, Sunday Times
• In the end, one has to say that the age-old and staid principles of banking are more relevant in the era of retail financing.
• I act like a teenager and he acts like a staid, pipe-and-slippers pensioner.