| 单词 | stilted |
| 例句 | stilted adjective •a few minutes of stilted conversation:strained, forced, contrived, constrained, labored, stiff, self-conscious, awkward, unnatural, wooden. ANT natural, effortless, spontaneous.WORD NOTE stilted As a synonym for awkward, stilted can itself occasionally be awkward. People can be naturally awkward, but if you want to use stilted, your subjects should be awkward only as the result of straining to be something other than what they naturally are. You're awkward when out of your depth; stilted only when you know you are but pretend you're not. — EMConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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