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stagily
adverb
disapprovinguk /ˈsteɪ.dʒəl.i/ us /ˈsteɪ.dʒəl.i/
in a way that is not very natural, like in a theatre:
He answered in his loud, stagily emphatic voice.
His reaction is at first too calm, then too stagily heroic.
Both of them have become stagily operatic performers.
The show feels more stagily self-conscious than it did in its earlier version.
It was like a cabaret with all the spoken dialogue delivered stagily, in a whisper or a shout.
The Prime Minister approached the summit in a stagily adversarial spirit.
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