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What is the adjective for stagy?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb stage which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

stagy
  1. theatrical
  2. unnaturally showy
  3. melodramatic; sensationalized
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The final fifteen minutes is a banal barrage of stagy and pretentious imagery.”
      “What could have easily been a stagy endeavour is kept fresh by capable direction and clever coverage by director Andrew Shea.”
      “Or, detractors will suggest, the finished product feels too stagy and hasn't managed to pull itself away successfully from the proscenium.”
stagelike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a stage (setting where a dramatic work is performed).
  2. (sciences) proceeding through discrete stages; often used of developmental processes.
staged
stageworthy
  1. (theater) Worthy, fit, or deserving of stage presentation; stageable.
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stagely
  1. (obsolete) Suited or related to the stage; theatrical.
stageable
  1. Capable of being staged, or performed upon the stage.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He helped Stein structure her richly cryptic prose into a stageable scenario.”
      “I cannot imagine a successful staging of a piece with so much instrumental music and that has very little stageable drama to it.”
      “Even if I did manage to finish a play, it is unlikely it would be stageable.”
stagebound
  1. (theater) Restricted to the stage
stagewise
  1. In stages; one stage at a time.
stagey
  1. Alternative spelling of stagy
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  3. Examples:
    1. “All too often in a film like this the musical numbers might stop the action dead with their stagey, almost animatronic feeling.”
      “With her, he sealed himself away in palatial residences, letting the people see him mainly through stagey televised ceremonials.”
      “The programme, largely monologue, consisted of a woolly, stagey ramble through her life and times.”
stagewide
  1. All across a stage.
stageless
  1. Without a stage.
stagier
stagiest
  1. superlative form of stagy: most stagy
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  3. Examples:
    1. “And they hire stage actors to interpret the stagiest of stage plots in as stagy a way as they know how.”
      “In the dark, medieval days before the Internet, teenagers were forced to scribble their stagiest experiments in self-hood in journals and notebooks, or to express themselves through their clothes.”
      “Indeed, the album's least appealing moments are its stagiest.”
staging
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