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Definition of Stagiest
1. stagy [adj] - See also: stagy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stagiest
Literary usage of Stagiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies in Literature by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1918)
"She saw everything "literary"in the light of the stage, and her stage was of the
stagiest. By ill-luck Reade, too, suffered from this false stage-eye. ..."
2. A History of American Literature Since 1870 by Fred Lewis Pattee (1915)
"There is a theatric quality about the heroines; we can see the make-up upon their
faces. Too often they talk the stagiest of stage talk as in the first ..."
3. A History of American Literature Since 1870 by Fred Lewis Pattee (1915)
"There is a theatric quality about the heroines; we can see the make-up upon their
faces. Too often they talk the stagiest of stage talk as in the first ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1884)
"The hero's brothers, and tutor, and wife, and father-in-law, are of the stagiest ;
and on such grounds it is dismissed in the biography with less respect ..."
5. The Masters of English Literature by Stephen Lucius Gwynn (1904)
"The period of the Christmas Books followed, which show Dickens at his most popular
and stagiest development. Nowhere else is the expansive optimism which ..."
6. A Librarian's Open Shelf: Essays on Various Subjects by Arthur Elmore Bostwick (1920)
"And they hire stage actors to interpret the stagiest of stage plots in as stagy
a way as they know how. I am taking the movie seriously because I like it ..."
7. A Librarian's Open Shelf: Essays on Various Subjects by Arthur Elmore Bostwick (1920)
"And they hire stage actors to interpret the stagiest of stage. plots in as stagy
a way as they know how. I am taking the movie seriously because I like it ..."
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