Staid, Waggish

Staid- solemn, serious, sedate, unadventurous

Ex: She was a wildcard, he was a staid, old-fashioned man. On their trip to the Grand Canyon, she wanted to jump off the edge in a flying squirrel suit. He just wanted to read all the informational signs. As she self-belayed down the side of the canyon, he stood watching her from above, calling out at her to, “be mindful of the late Proterozoic-era sandstone, it can be quite jagged and unforgiving on your ropes.” She didn’t listen, and a piece of sandstone cut through her ropes and sent her plummeting into the depths of the canyon. He thought to himself, “wow, she’s going to land in the same spot where the wreckage settled from the mid-air collision of two commercial airliners in 1956 that led to the formation of the Federal Aviation Administration.”

Waggish- humorous in a playful way

Ex: The Middle Eastern guy at the ice cream stand in the open-air market who does the waggish act with your ice cream cone before giving it to you probably has super weak flavors and ice cream quality. Bro is spending way too much time on his silly little ice cream game and not enough time on producing a high-quality product. I bet you this cat can’t even whip up a half decent maple walnut if he tried. As if it isn’t bad enough to be publically humiliated when all you want is an ice cream that you’ve been waiting in line for for half an hour in 100 degree heat. But nope, after all that you get handed a turmeric and rose-water situation that tastes like chewing gum made for camels.