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artificially formal

We listen to the earnest attempts of their talk, the bits of their stilted English.
Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker

The letters were formal and a little stilted.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
Her legs stilted with fear, she continued down.
Stephen King -- The Shining
He was too stilted, too selfopinionated.
Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
The words were awkward, stilted because of her embarrassment, but they seemed sincere.
Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon
"You have a sweetheart or a brother, I presume?" she asked in her stilted readerish way.
Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
I had to read several of the letters he'd received first to pick up the stilted formal style of the day.
Octavia Butler -- Kindred
Why was I speaking in this stilted fashion?
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
But my mom and I weren't normal, so this—stilted and vague as it might be—was the closest we'd come to each other in ages.
Sarah Dessen -- Along for the Ride
Formal, a little stilted, it was from Rosemarie, and folded in it were two photographs of my grandmother.
Piper Kerman -- Orange Is the New Black
I'm here, father,' the man seemed to take a long breath for his surprising stilted statement, 'on an errand of mercy.
Graham Greene -- The Power and the Glory
In each case, the conversation had been stilted; they had tiptoed through the talk as though through the bedroom of a fitfully sleeping child.
Gish Jen -- Typical American
Yet despite Francie and Em and our stilted pleasantries in the kitchen, Kitsey's apartment was one of the few places I felt truly safe in New York.
Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
Their conversations were filled with their usual banter but it was somehow stilted at the same time, for he knew she wanted him to forgive himself.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Choice
Conversation was stilted.
Ian McEwan -- Atonement
Though in print the speech would seem a bit stilted, it was delivered with great force and effect.
David McCullough -- John Adams
And the prose in the memoranda of other officers was always turgid, stilted, or ambiguous.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
I hate awkwardness and those weird stilted conversations and feeling like I can't go somewhere because you're there, or whatever.
Sarah Dessen -- This Lullaby
Conversations became stilted, and we began to argue for the first time.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Longest Ride
I don't doubt that's true, but wouldn't you say that the first few paragraphs are a little ... stilted?
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom

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