adv. rare. [f. STALE a.1 + -LY2.] In a stale, commonplace or hackneyed manner.
1598–9. B. Jonson, Case Altered, II. iii. I will not sue stally to be your seruant, But a new tearme, will you be my refuge? Ibid. (1611), Catiline, II. iii. Tut, all your promis’d Mountaines, And Seas, I am so stalely acquainted with.
