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Stilted

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Adjective

1. artificial, contrived, hokey, stilted

artificially formal

Example Sentences:
'that artificial humility that her husband hated'
'contrived coyness'
'a stilted letter of acknowledgment'
'when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Stilted

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adjective
1. 
(of speech, writing, etc) formal, pompous, or bombastic
2. 
not flowing continuously or naturally
stilted conversation
3. architecture
(of an arch) having vertical piers between the impost and the springing

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Stilted

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adjective
1. 
raised or elevated on or as on stilts
2. 
artificially formal or dignified; pompous

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Stilted

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adj.
1. Stiffly or artificially formal; stiff: stilted prose.
2. Architecture Having some vertical length between the impost and the beginning of the curve. Used of an arch.

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