stagily
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[edit]Adverb
[edit]stagily (comparative more stagily, superlative most stagily)
- In a stagy way.
- 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 534:
- She sat down, sobbing — somewhat stagily now — through a litany of names of those who might comfort her, take her in their arms to say: "Don't cry any more, darling. The bad, bad days are over now."