staid

respectable

TRANSLATION

seriös, respektabel

STATISTICS

IN THE PRESS

"This STAID, imperial capital, devoted to the exercise of power, may not be everyone's idea of sin city."

(Rupert Cornwall writing about Washington in The Independent, 20.07.2002)


"There is nothing settled, nothing staid in this universe."

(Virginia Woolf).

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The word staid has strong associations of sedate respectability.

Synonyms : Sober; grave; steady; sedate; composed; regular; not wild, volatile, or fanciful.

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