sedate
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Adopting different and sedater tactics, abandoning the raucous for the merely raw, they have a way of making everything they touch turn to lead.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fortunately, though, only the older and sedater girls were to be seen.
From The Making of Mona by Quiller-Couch, Mabel
Yet know I her sister, The older, sedater, Mine own silent friend; Oh, may she never, Till life's lamp is quench'd, Turn away from me,— That noble inciter, Comforter,—Hope!
From The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Bowring, Edgar Alfred
The child did as she was bid, tripping lightly along a well-kept gravel walk which led to the grass-plat, while Mrs. Compton followed with sedater step behind.
From The Widow Barnaby Vol. I (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
So now I knew the law about the thing, and we moved on together, Oliver stretching himself consciously, and methought that even David walked with a sedater air.
From The Little White Bird; or, Adventures in Kensington gardens by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
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