stiltishadj.
/ˈstɪltɪʃ/ rare.
Characterized by stiltedness.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adjective]
streiche?a1513
fustian1523
nipping1568
fashionative1584
affected1598
affectate1599
affecting1600
snufflinga1640
whalebone1801
stiltish1824
stilty1845
posturing1851
greenery-yallery1881
mee-mawing1886
meemaw1898
faisandé1912
twee1956
nerdy1960
pseud1962
pseudo1964
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > laboured or pedantic
tricked1549
pedantical1592
laboured1613
pedantic1631
laborious1657
stiff1664
long-nebbed1818
stiltified1820
stiltish1824
overwrought1839
uncolloquial1840
stilty1845
Ollendorffian1848
literose1859
stilted1874
Hisperic1904
1824 T. Medwin Conv. with Byron I. 194 He looked the Roman so well, that even ‘Cato’, cold and stiltish as it is, had a run.
Derivatives
ˈstiltishness n.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun]
affectation1548
affection1570
phantastry1656
stilt1735
fal-lal1775
coxcombality1785
meemaw1790
posture-making1797
attitudinarianism1803
attitudinizing1812
piminy1819
stiltishness1824
niminy-piminyism1840
gyvera1866
notion1866
attitudinization1871
effectism1871
jam1882
chichi1908
poncing1969
pseudery1972
1824 Examiner 694/1 His general deportment, with the exception of a little occasional stiltishness, is correspondent.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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adj.1824