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stiltedly

ADVERB
  1. in a stilted manner
    she answered him stiltedly

How To Use stiltedly In A Sentence

  • Like the 1939 classic it adores, Australia is stiltedly comical, sweepingly starry-eyed, and melodramatic in its approach to war and racism. Buzzine » DVD Roundup
  • Michael Lerman at indieWIRE: "Sweet, saccharine and stiltedly hilarious, Eagle vs Shark, though downbeat, hits many of the right notes to reach a wide audience and still feel charmingly small in scale despite the fact that it is co-funded by Miramax. GreenCine Daily: Sundance. Eagle vs Shark.
  • The US court documents also lays bare the stiltedly textbook spycraft used by the Russians to identify their own side. Russian spies row raises diplomatic tensions
  • He shook my hand somewhat stiltedly, as if he was uncomfortable touching people. Chocolate & Vicodin
  • The humor, if one may call it that, consists of having Anna and Claire exchanging, in endless one-upmanship, insults whose flowery and stiltedly archaizing language is periodically littered with today's grossest obscenities.
  • They scan stiltedly to me, and I find them unpleasant to read. "r u goin 2 b ther?" sounds like "Ur oo going to buh there?" in my head. Gadget help revisited
  • she answered him stiltedly
  • The evening got off on an unsteady note as models Iman and Veronica Webb introduced the program as if they were kicking off a school assembly, reading their prepared text stiltedly and managing to mangle the names of a couple of the evening's choreographers. Shrimp Balls and Booty Calls: The ABT Gala: James Wolcott
  • What I realised, though, was that while I'm really glad I went and while it was really good to be with other folk and talk, however stiltedly, about Andy, this is something I need to deal with myself, slowly, over time.
  • Seeing the carrots made her realise how hungry she had become during the preparations for the journey, and she walked rather stiltedly out of the hot, stuffy kitchen.
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