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List of antonyms from "stiletto" to antonyms from "stir"


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Definition of the day : « stilted »

  • adj artificial, pretentious
Example sentences :
  • No, my stilted, stiff-laigged sheep of the mountain, we ain't got no ice.'
  • Extract from : « Faro Nell and Her Friends » by Alfred Henry Lewis
  • She was evidently infected by the stilted manner of her ridiculous lover.
  • Extract from : « Scaramouche » by Rafael Sabatini
  • The arches are cusped like the windows, but are stilted and segmental.
  • Extract from : « Portuguese Architecture » by Walter Crum Watson
  • The letter of congratulation must be natural, not stilted, and must be sincere.
  • Extract from : « How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) » by Mary Owens Crowther
  • He is not nearly so composed as Shadwell, and his voice has a strange and stilted sound.
  • Extract from : « Molly Bawn » by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
  • The style is stilted, and there is no attempt at delineation of character.
  • Extract from : « Mary Wollstonecraft » by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
  • But he's so stilted and tiresome, always serious,—and such a pose!
  • Extract from : « The Plum Tree » by David Graham Phillips
  • All unnecessary words and all stilted phrases should be stripped from a letter.
  • Extract from : « The Book of Business Etiquette » by Nella Henney
  • And his poem seemed to him as lame and stilted as the night was winged.
  • Extract from : « The Forsyte Saga, Volume III. » by John Galsworthy
  • Avoid all stilted phrases and studied efforts at consolation.
  • Extract from : « The Complete Bachelor » by Walter Germain