Examples of stilted

• The language is stilted, typical 'translatorese', so much so that some sentences are virtually incomprehensible.

• The text, in traditional number-opera format, is indeed stilted and dreary.

• As a kind of diary, in parts it is written in the stilted, abbreviated manner of that genre.

• Too much emphasis on any one element would lead to the production of narratives which were stilted and not naturalistic.

• The rhetoric of his speeches is also somewhat stilted and archaic, probably by design.

• The lines, spoken staccato by the actors, are choppy, stilted fragments rather than smooth streams of input.

• Besides, the mensural interpretation was artificial and yielded stilted transcriptions.

• In his serenade, for example, the rhymes are obvious and stilted; more grotesque still are the violations of metre and the misplaced accents.