staidness
Example Sentences
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With record sums of cash in their coffers, even the staidest corporations are discovering the attractions of real estate development, the traditional province of the speculative entrepreneur.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oklahoma's bulldog-jawed Democrat Lyle Boren, head of a sub-committee probing the Holding Company Act, had unearthed an amazing "conspiracy" on the part of some of Wall Street's staidest investment bankers and financiers.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was no doubt about it; she made fools of the staidest, if for no better end than that the spectacle might amuse me.
From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by Cabell, James Branch
As for Peter, he was the happiest of the happy and had sung and whistled so joyously while skating that the staidest passersby had smiled as they listened.
From Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates by Dodge, Mary Mapes
"The dried up little chap yonder," dismounting slowly and carefully from one of Turner's staidest troop horses, was the unappreciated Harris, returning from one of the first tentatives in saddle.
From Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War by Post, Charles J.
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