All 3 Uses of
stilted
in
Main Street
- Without understanding when or how, without a tangible change in the stilted intoning of the stage-puppets, she was conscious of another time and place.†
Chpt 17 *
- Only the Henty books and the Elsie books and the latest optimisms by moral female novelists and virile clergymen were in general demand, and the board themselves were interested only in old, stilted volumes.†
Chpt 19
- That's just the stilted sort of thing I've tried to avoid.†
Chpt 39
Definition:
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(stilted) artificially formal