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n. self-consciousness, out-of-place formality, or forced behavior.
Usage examples of "stiltedness".
English, which, while successful as to grammar and accentuation, did not escape the ludicrous in a certain stiltedness of tone and inflection, from which intrusion of the would-be gentleman, his father, a simple, old-fashioned man, shrank with more of dislike than he was willing to be conscious of.
He feigns to speak our language with a certain practiced stiltedness that is intended to suggest lack of familiarity.
You could just see it, the stiltedness, and once having seen it, you could see nothing else.
Detective Sergeant Bone with appalling stiltedness, his eyes fixed on the mirror.
I must restrict myself to the stiltedness of addressing you in like manner.
The one-second delay was just long enough to impose a certain stiltedness on the conversation, as if both of them were speaking a language neither felt comfortable with.
I was wanting her beyond bearing, as she could tell by the altered state of my voice and the stiltedness of my movements.