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Definition of Stagily
1. Adverb. In a stagy and theatrical manner. "`I cannot show my face at her house,' he declared theatrically"
Definition of Stagily
1. Adverb. In a stagy way. ¹
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Definition of Stagily
1. in a stagy manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stagily
Literary usage of Stagily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1914)
""With regard to the report," he scratched, reading stagily as he wrote, "that
General Pepito Arojas, commanding the Insurrectionary Forces in Northern ..."
2. Dramatic Opinions and Essays, with an Apology: With an Apology by Bernard Shaw (1907)
"... pleasant good sense, humanity, and originality: she grieved stagily all through
in the manner of the Duchess of York in Cibber's "Richard III. ..."
3. Appletons' Journal (1879)
"... ¡ralk " stagily " before footlights, to pose in stagey " attitudes, to talk
in a "stagey" voice : те art of acting is unteachable. ..."
4. Studies in the Elizabethan Drama by Arthur Symons (1919)
"It is not a simple leave-taking; it comes as if prepared beforehand. And next
morning, how stagily, and yet with what a real ..."
5. Little Theater Classics by Samuel Atkins Eliot (1920)
"Man's fancy follows where the new winds blow. CELIE (stagily romantic) Love's
rites were forfeit, and all honor dead, Ere he could love another in my stead! ..."
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