Usually means: Carefully planned for desired effect.
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  1. stage-managed: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. stage-managed, stage-managed: Collins English Dictionary
  3. stage-managed: Wordnik
  4. stage-managed: Dictionary.com
  5. stage-managed: Dictionary/thesaurus
  6. stage-managed: Wiktionary

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▸ adjective:  Carefully controlled or directed so as to ensure a particular desired appearance or outcome, especially an artificial one.

Similar:
staged, scripted, stylized, semistaged, cinematic, stagebound, Hollywoodified, stagestruck, stagy, actor-proof, more...

Opposite:
spontaneous, unscripted, impromptu, natural, unorchestrated

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Similar:
staged, scripted, stylized, semistaged, cinematic, stagebound, Hollywoodified, stagestruck, stagy, actor-proof, more...

Opposite:
spontaneous, unscripted, impromptu, natural, unorchestrated



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