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Staid

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(adjective) Sedate, respectable, and unadventurous; resistant to change or excitement; marked by settled, even dull, conventionality.

The new curator's bold acquisitions rattled the museum's staid board of trustees, who had grown comfortable with decades of cautious, predictable programming.