stilted
adjective
stiffly dignified or formal, as speech or literary style; pompous.
unstilted
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a word derived from
stilted.
Example Sentences
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He has an unstilted conversational style, packed with matter-of-fact questions asked and then answered.
From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2015
Onstage, they saw simple and well-lighted sets, fresh and unstilted acting.
From Time Magazine Archive
These are orders in crisp, unstilted language that show his determination to scuttle those customs and traditions that no longer seem to have a point−if indeed they ever did.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the supper-tables of her palsied husband she had been gay, unstilted, and simple; but with the King she became formal, prudish, ceremonious, fond of etiquette, and pharisaical in her religious life.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women by John Lord
The minister had a frank, friendly unstilted manner of talking, that made some of the older people shake their heads and think him unclerical.
From The Adventures of a Freshman by Jesse Lynch Williams
