Meanings of more stilted in English

Taken aback, I couldn't answer, and the atmosphere grew even more stilted.

In the short term, that might mean more stilted conversations in your inbox.

It had become at once more official,- atriflemore stilted.

The English which men spoke then was no more stilted or formal to them than ours is to us.

My breathing was more stilted.

Or if we did manage to keep up a conversation, the longer we went on, the more stilted and guarded it became.

The result was jerkier, with more stilted movements and longer closeups, in which faces often filled the screens: a kind of cut-rate Expressionism.

Nothing could be more stilted, more laboured, than the pages which attempt to render his emotions and his words, till there comes the revealing touch.