stilted
adjective
stiffly dignified or formal, as speech or literary style; pompous.
stiltedness
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a word derived from
stilted.
Example Sentences
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There’s a bittersweet circularity to the tune, with a deliberate stiltedness to the arrangement.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 10, 2018
This is writing peppered with phrases of a purposeful stiltedness.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2018
They’re fake and robotic, beginning and ending with a stiltedness that never accompanies real human laughter.
From The Verge ● Jul. 19, 2017
I’d like to think the stiltedness of the entire episode was somehow meant to echo the artificiality of multiple layers of players being played.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2016
That goes well, even after all these years, does it not? and seems to bring Lucia very near, in spite of what the later generation is pleased to call the stiltedness of the old-time verse.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
