stagily

English

Etymology

stagy +‎ -ly

Adverb

stagily (comparative more stagily, superlative most stagily)

1. In a stagy way.
   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 534:

     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."

Anagrams

• stilyag, stygial