Object

• night: She staid there all night; nobody turned in.

Modifies a noun

• image: HONDA has gone all out to change its rather staid image with an excitingly different look for its latest Civic.

• world: Over the last few years he has taken the staid world of opera by storm.

• man: The British economy is only healthy in the sense that the most staid middle-aged man is healthy.

• reputation: Its cities are shaking off their staid reputations and reveling in their cosmopolitan chic.

• capital: Pretoria is the staid, conservative capital, with wide streets lined with jacaranda trees that bloom purple in spring.

• family: Staid middle-aged family a fleetwood would tailored to an.

Modifying Another Word

• rather: By the corpse is a hat labeled ' Madame Rita ' , real name the rather staid Mrs Grant.

• normally: One wonders just how much normally staid writer George St George actually contributed.

• there: She staid there all night; nobody turned in.

• very: Some of the latter are very staid, others flippant enough; most are single women.

• little: The WAGs seemed a welcome adornment to Baden-Baden, which had become a little staid since its 19th century heyday.

• somewhat: That both choose to remain as Ogres rather than retain their human forms avoided a happy but somewhat staid and expected ending.

Used with adjective complement

• look: It certainly makes the next generation of composers look positively staid.

• haue: I would haue staid till I had made you merry, If worthier friends had not preuented me Ant.

• become: A series of unexpected and often ludicrous juxtapositions ensure that this collection of interconnected stories never become staid.