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Meanings of stilted in anglès

Artificially formal.

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        Examples for "artificial"
        1
        Dry in the shade; never in the sun or in artificial heat.
        Military Instructors Manual
        2
        Scientists and farmers therefore produce a lot of food with artificial methods.
        The South African
        3
        This doesn't mean that the current crisis is artificial or indeed temporary.
        The Guardian
        4
        So what new words might we use in place of artificial intelligence?
        BBC
        5
        And then, of course, artificial intelligence will develop new kinds of weapons.
        Wired
        1
        Providing an immediately different, or contrived, competition style could have been troublesome.
        The Guardian
        2
        With a great effort, Joyce contrived to be gracious yet once more.
        Eyeless in Gaza
        3
        Owen's argument for limbs might strike us today as contrived and peculiar.
        The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
        4
        Finally, the trial seems, in retrospect, obviously contrived to serve political ends.
        1492 the year our world began
        5
        At one point Pakistan contrived to lose six wickets for 29 runs.
        The Guardian
        1
        Unchaperoned, though, recent seasons have subsided into a swamp of hokey backslapping.
        The Guardian
        2
        It's just hokey atmospherics, of course, but it sends a message.
        The new yorker
        3
        Without being hokey, it makes me feel hopeful about the future of humanity.
        Feminist dot com
        4
        Really hokey, but really scary and weird at the same time.
        Wired
        5
        That would be a lot less derivative and just as much hokey fun.
        The Guardian
        Usage of stilted in anglès
        1
        Taken aback, I couldn't answer, and the atmosphere grew even more stilted.
        Evil and the Mask
        2
        His often stilted demeanour in front of the cameras was also off-putting.
        News.com.au
        3
        Her voice had no discernible affect, while mine went straight to stilted.
        With friends like these
        4
        She was evidently infected by the stilted manner of her ridiculous lover.
        Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution
        5
        He could think of nothing that did not sound stilted and formal.
        At the Time Appointed
        6
        Write to me-nota stilted, legal kind of letter like the last.
        Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life
        7
        The stilted dialogue of a true-crime show sounded from the living room.
        Two Truths and a Lie
        8
        But while his style is sometimes stilted, Trump jnr knows his audience.
        The Irish Times
        9
        Long, high-worded, stilted letters the poor boy wrote and rewrote and copied.
        Public Speaking: Principles and Practice
        10
        While scientific throughout, it is singularly free from technical and stilted terms.
        The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English / or,...
        11
        He wandered around, talking out loud, in a voice stilted and unpleasant.
        The new yorker
        12
        In Webster's youth, a stilted, unnatural style was popular for set speeches.
        History of American Literature
        13
        His legs felt sluggish, and he noticed that his walking was stilted.
        The unincorporated man
        14
        Avoid all gesture which is unmeaning, angular, abrupt, constrained, stilted, or amateurish.
        Talks on Talking
        15
        How absurd and stilted and unreal it must have sounded to them!
        Our Friend John Burroughs
        16
        It was written in the stilted handwriting of a generation ago and read:
        Guy Garrick
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