Having characteristics of the stage especially an artificial and mannered quality:
— Stagy heroics.

synonym: stagey.

Roget 855: affected, full of affectation, pretentious, pedantic, stilted, stagy, theatrical, big-sounding, ad captandum; canting, insincere.    not natural, unnatural; self-conscious; maniere; artificial; overwrought, overdone, overacted; euphuist etc. 577.    stiff, starch, formal, prim, smug, demure, tire a quatre epingles, quakerish, puritanical, prudish, pragmatical, priggish, conceited, coxcomical, foppish, dandified; finical, finikin; mincing, simpering, namby-pamby, sentimental.    ... show more

Roget 599: dramatic; theatric, theatrical; scenic, histrionic, comic, tragic, buskined^†, farcical, tragicomic, melodramatic, operatic; stagy.    ... show more