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Synonyms:
- schmaltzy, posing, jerky, counterfeit, soupy, facade, impersonating, prim, slushy, gauche, forced, buckram, ersatz, studied, ungainly, jaunty, flexible, kitschy, dashing, ornate, affected, showy, maudlin, dramatic, bogus, flagrant, grandiose, bathetic, theatrical, nice, mawkish, la-di-da, stiff, sensational, ungraceful, egotistic, punctilious, rakish, correct, fraudulent, rough-hewn, fake, stagy, robotic, grandiloquent, proper, schmalzy, splashy, uneasy, unreal, snazzy, inelegant, hokey, flourishing, formal, stiff-necked, clumsy, histrionic, convulsive, be all fingers and thumbs, contrived, overdone, flashy, heavy, blatant, mock, shameless, graceless, imitation, artificial, pompous, forged, exhibitionistic, rustic, garish, sentimental, unnatural, masquerading, mushy, ostentatious, drippy, starchy, pretentious, fussy, imposture, opulent, vain, flamboyant, soppy, gaudy, boastful, decorous, false, flaunting, synthetic, deceitful, uncomfortable, mannered, wooden, awkward, uncoordinated
Examples:
- - Mark was overcome with a desire to laugh at the stilted way in which he was talking, and, from the suppression of the desire, to laugh wildly at everything in the scene, and not least at the comic death of Will Starling, even at the corpse itself lying with a broken neck at his feet. - "The Altar Steps", Compton MacKenzie
- - Mae listened to the somewhat stilted phraseology of these polite and proper notes with a supercilious smile. - "Just Patty", Jean Webster
- - She said, with a curious stilted politeness: It was very good of you to come. - "Angela's Business", Henry Sydnor Harrison
Antonyms:
- confident, serene, secure, collected, easygoing, casual, cool, self-possessed, rude, urbane, graceful, self-assured, placid, calm, tranquil, unperturbed, improper, self-confident, discourteous, poised, informal, indecorous, assured, suave, unaffected, undisturbed, unceremonious, impolite, unmannerly, laid-back, composed
