stilted
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Synonyms & Antonyms for stilted
Synonyms
awkward, clumsy, gauche, graceless, inelegant, rough-hewn, rustic (also rustical), stiff, uncomfortable, uneasy, ungraceful, wooden
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Some of her rivals, by contrast, still sometimes use the stilted rhetoric of longtime legislators. — Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, "Elizabeth Warren isnât just a former Harvard professor. She doled out advice for Dr. Phil," 27 Aug. 2019 The clichĂ©s, plot holes, and stilted dialogue would all be forgivable if there were more fight scenes, and if the show wasnât so often soaked in its own sodden seriousness. — Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, "Netflixâs Wu Assassins series lacks the Hong Kong cinema magic," 8 Aug. 2019 Todayâs stilted gun debate reflects an impoverishment of our moral and political imagination. — Saul Cornell, The New Republic, "The Second-Amendment Case for Gun Control," 4 Aug. 2019 An Orlando digital publisher has adopted technology distributed by Amazon that makes the stilted robotic voices often associated with text-to-speech services sound more natural. — Marco Santana, orlandosentinel.com, "Orlando publisher adopts realistic voice technology," 1 Aug. 2019 In hours of sometimes halting and stilted testimony, unfolding at a moment of deep division in the country, Mueller also condemned Trumpâs praise of WikiLeaks, which released Democratic emails stolen by Russia. — Michael Balsamo, The Denver Post, "In hours of testimony Robert Mueller answers questions from Congress about Russia probe," 24 July 2019 So if my emotions are real â and as an actor, thatâs my goal â then the stilted, strange dialogue will seem real, too. — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, "Jesse Eisenberg on the âaspirational and also absurdâ manliness in his new movie," 12 July 2019 The trails, some stilted over small streams and bogs, follow a loop that can be walked in 30 minutes at a leisurely pace, but the cattails are tall enough to block out the view of town, and birdsong soon replaces the sound of cars on the Boulevard. — Brian Coyne, SFChronicle.com, "One Day, One Place: Mount Shasta, California," 11 July 2019 His challenger is Jeremy Hunt, the capable but slightly stilted foreign secretary who has been less committed to leaving the EU on Oct. 31. — Max Colchester, WSJ, "Tories Pin Brexit Hopes on Boris Johnson, Blunders and All," 28 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'stilted.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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