stiltedadjective
uk/ˈstɪl.tɪd/us/ˈstɪl.tɪd/disapproving(of a person's behaviour or way of speaking or writing) too formal and not smooth or natural:
He writes in a formal and somewhat stilted style.
The dialogue sounded stilted and unnatural, perhaps because of the translation from the original Russian.
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Ways of talking
- -mouthed
- babel
- blab
- blather
- declamatory
- drone
- drone on
- hold the floor idiom
- lyrical
- meanderings
- rabbit
- rabbit on
- sink to a whisper idiom
- tattle
- telegrammatic
- throw
- undertone
- waffle
- whisper
- yap
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stiltedly
adverb uk/ˈstɪl.tɪd.li/us/ˈstɪl.tɪd.li/