staidly
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staid
(stād)adj.
1. Characterized by sedateness and often a strait-laced sense of propriety; serious and conventional.
2. Fixed; permanent: "There is nothing settled, nothing staid in this universe" (Virginia Woolf).
[From obsolete staid, past participle of stay.]
staid′ly adv.
staid′ness n.
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Adv. | 1. | staidly - in a grave and sober manner; "he walked soberly toward the altar" |
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