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stiltedly Definition


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stilted
adj
    1. Said of language: unnatural-sounding and over-formal.
      Thesaurus: affected, pompous, artificial, bombastic, high-flown, inflated, pretentious, graceless.
    2. Laboured or jarring; not flowing.
      Example: a stilted conversation
      Thesaurus: forced, staged, laboured, wooden; Antonym: flowing, fluent.
    3. Raised on stilts.
Derivative: stiltedly
adverb
    Derivative: stiltedness
    noun
      Etymology: 17c: from stilt.



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