stagily
adv/ˈsteɪd͡ʒɪli/
Etymology From stagy + -ly.
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In a stagy way.
- She sat down, sobbing — somewhat stagily now — through a litany of names of those who might comfort her, take her in their arms to say: "Don't cry any more, darling. The bad, bad days are over now."1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 534: