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Перевод: staid

[прилагательное]
положительный; степенный; уравновешенный; благоразумный

Тезаурус:

1. Mod's other branches had gone flamboyant or hippy or student or young married, but he'd stayed staid.
2. The two of them tickling staid Janey, one on each side until she couldn't help laughing, and the seven peas rolled away.
3. Its swirling form makes the early stages of the building look positively staid.
4. It was precisely this spirit-this agitation against the staid and the genteel - which Leonard had perceived in the guitar-playing of his late youthful instructor, whose demise had the intensity of surreal life.
5. Too staid.
6. Such destruction could be vicious: the staid senator.
7. Equally at home with highbrow or no-brow cinema, Kael is unapologetic about feeding a sweet tooth for vulgarity which can seem incongruous in the New Yorker 's staid pages.
8. Dear old staid, conservative, non-violent Britain.
9. In the United States even those most staid of institutions, the public utilities, offer a cash discount to those customers who pay for their water, electricity or gas on time.
10. Square-cut and staid to behold, it packs a potent punch quite at odds with its looks.
11. There is no need to be intimidated by the formality of a staid institution's catalogue, or to neglect popular magazines; as for writing in various academic disciplines, there ought to be no barrier to learning about an interesting topic.
12. With pie diagrams indicating that the major pop consumers are the staid, over-25s, the development in the ad industry of "psychogeographics" (the science of using pop to home in on specific taste publics - i.e. Springsteen fans are likely to desire different products from Whitney Houston fans), and the construction of bands in the studio, pop has never required less urgently a rush of theory from the "left".
13. Callaghan himself followed a staid and dignified, but uncharismatic, course.