Stagily

adv. [f. STAGY a. + -LY².] In a stagy manner.

1867.  Athenæum, 26 Oct., 542/1. Weak, because stagily antipathetic, is the figure of the mother who places her child’s body among the branches of a tree.

1900.  Pall Mall Gaz., 13 Nov., 4/2. The rather perfunctory and stagily improbable rescue of Lance Carlyon from a watery grave.