stilted

• His personnel record was clean as a whistle Bennie thought their conversation stilted, as programmed as a dialogue in a high school language lab. —  Scottoline, Lisa - Mistaken Identity
• The conversation was stilted, and limited to France, the French, their traditions and customs, and their irritating habit of saying "hein?" —  EQMM, July 2005
• The style is at once poor and stilted, and the general quality of remark eminently commonplace, where it does not fall into paradox. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Gibbon, by James Cotter Morison
• Her writing had slowed down and become more formal and stilted, and she'd seen fewer and fewer people as the years went by, and he had heard that before her death she had lain motionless and silent for ten days. —  Tim Powers - The Stress of Her Regard
• In fact, to call the stilted, off-topic, everything-but-policy exchange between Libertas founder Declan Ganley and Greens leader Daniel Cohn-Bendit in Brussels yesterday evening a debate would be generous. —  Politics.ie - 3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,41,42,48,49,50,52

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