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English to English adjective
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Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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artificially formal | | Example: that artificial humility that her husband hated
contrived coyness
a stilted letter of acknowledgment
when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation
source: wordnet30
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