stagilyadv.
/ˈsteɪdʒɪli/ In a stagy manner.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adverb] > in theatrical or exaggerated manner
histrionically?1631
theatrically1647
stagily1867
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > [adverb]
stagily1867
1867 Athenæum 26 Oct. 542/1 Weak, because stagily antipathetic, is the figure of the mother who places her child's body among the branches of a tree.
1900 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 Nov. 4/2 The rather perfunctory and stagily improbable rescue of Lance Carlyon from a watery grave.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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adv.1867