stilted
adjective
[ ˈstɪltɪd ]
• (of a manner of talking or writing) stiff and self-conscious or unnatural.
• "we made stilted conversation"
Similar:
strained,
forced,
contrived,
constrained,
laboured,
laborious,
stiff,
self-conscious,
awkward,
unnatural,
wooden,
unrelaxed,
artificial,
mannered,
• standing on stilts.
• "villages of stilted houses"
