Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a theatrical, especially an artificial or affected, character or quality.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Savoring of the stage; theatrieal; conventional in manner: in a depreciatory sense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having an air or manner characteristic of the stage; theatrical; artificial; ; -- chiefly used depreciatively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
theatrical - adjective
unnaturally showy - adjective
melodramatic - adjective
sensationalized
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having characteristics of the stage especially an artificial and mannered quality
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Examples
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It is all very "stagy" -- but, since it exists, can hardly be called unreal.
Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus
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Also it's one of the few Minnelli CinemaScope movies where he really seems at ease with the wide screen; maybe because the film is kind of stagy-looking, the proscenium shape of the screen actually works and leads to great effects like the three-person shot that opens "Thank Heaven For Little Girls."
MGM's Desperation Jaime J. Weinman 2008
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Also it's one of the few Minnelli CinemaScope movies where he really seems at ease with the wide screen; maybe because the film is kind of stagy-looking, the proscenium shape of the screen actually works and leads to great effects like the three-person shot that opens "Thank Heaven For Little Girls."
Archive 2008-09-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2008
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Forsooth! then you set a kind of stagy, theatrical tone for the book.
What I bought – 5 December 2007 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2007
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At last, the pompous, "stagy" old monarch died, full of infirmities and of humiliations; and the road from the Boulevard to St. Denis was lined with booths as for a _fête_, and the people feasted, sang, and danced for joy that the tyrant was in his coffin.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various
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The least "stagy" actors are almost always favorites.
A Librarian's Open Shelf Arthur E. Bostwick
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Although Collins had a considerable amount of rather coarse vigour in him (his brother Charles, who died young, had a much more delicate art) and great fecundity in a certain kind of stagy invention, it is hard to believe that his work will ever be put permanently high.
The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889
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It's stagy and obvious and not terribly effective, since Olive doesn't really seem to come to any particular understanding.
Michael Giltz: Theater: NYMF #3 -- Chorus Girls, Satyrs, And Song Cycles Michael Giltz 2011
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The acting makes up for the stagy script, which has lots of pontificating and little boxing.
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The acting makes up for the stagy script, which has lots of pontificating and little boxing.
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