Stilted is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STILTED in dictionary:

VERB:
• STILT, to raise on long slender poles
ADJECTIVE:
• (of a manner of talking or writing) stiff and self-conscious or unnatural
• standing on stilts
• (of an arch) with pieces of upright masonry between the imposts and the springers.
• stiff and formal in manner
• Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation.
• artificially formal
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to raise on stilts (long, slender poles)

Words related to STILTED

stilt5 stiltedly13 stiltedness12 stilting9 stilts6

How to use STILTED in a sentence

• Being a man used to keeping the gate ever open to the full flood of spontaneity, he became stilted in the repetition of anything he had thought out and rehearsed.
• Splendid men with good physique, but slow and stilted in movement.
• From one point of view, the old-fashioned forms of thought and courtesy are stilted and useless.
• The diction was stilted and artificial, and pompous declamation took the place of action and genuine passion.
• Their style was elegant and academic, retaining a little of the stilted poetic diction of their classical forerunners.
• There had been people at the Home, who exchanged a stilted, perfunctory kindness for their salaries.
• This rather stilted letter is nearly identical with one to the other consul-designate, another aristocrat, Claudius Marcellus.
• She makes her stilted passage across the arena upon which the new womanhood of Western Europe shows its worth.
• No, it was the precise, formal English of a foreigner, with here and there a ludicrous error among the stilted phrases.
• To-day the stilted figures of Hasse, Pergolesi, Rameau, and even Gluck, seem as grotesque to us as the wigs and buckles of their contemporaries.
• When Gard got back to Villa Elsa, another stilted letter with a new programme was awaiting him.
• The stilted arch is chiefly found in conjunction with the semicircular arch in the construction of Norman vaulting over a space in plan that of a parallelogram.
• The style, likewise, is labored, and the conversations combine the two undesirable peculiarities of being both stilted and dull.
• She was evidently infected by the stilted manner of her ridiculous lover.
• The union of the two and the contrast between the low-pitched roof of the nave and the stilted roofs of the transept are rather awkward.
• A conversation composed of long sentences would seem stilted and made to order.
• Haim, using one of his ridiculously stilted phrases.
• In many cases we find that he could employ irony and sarcasm with real force, and his powers of description, even if stilted at times, were vigorous and effective.
• The large stilted characters, though half-familiar, called up no definite image.
• He would talk about New York and London in his queer stilted way.
• The competition produced a few admirable poems, but anxiety to preserve the old troubadour style resulted generally in dry and stilted compositions.
• It was a warm-hearted and affectionate response to her somewhat stilted little appeal.
• Her voice was always formal, and it sounded stilted, forced, in comparison with Mrs.
• But as he continued she answered at length, hesitating, using phrases as trite and quaintly stilted as the theme itself, gently defending the old names he sneered at.
• He tends to be stilted, almost dishonest, veiling himself before those awful eyes.
• It was an old square brick-and-stucco building, sombre and stilted and very dirty.
• What you say is rather stilted in diction, but it is nevertheless true.

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