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 Translation for 'stilted' from English to French
ADJ   stilted | more stilted | most stilted
SYNO artificial | contrived | hokey | ...
guindé {adj} {past-p} [style]stilted
orn.
échassier {adj}
stilted [as if on stilts]
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Translation for 'stilted' from English to French

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stilted
guindé {adj} {past-p} [style]
stilted [as if on stilts]
échassier {adj}orn.
Usage Examples English
  • The rhetorical devices do not translate easily and the English can sound stilted or redundant.
  • Film critic and Catholic priest Peter Malone writes that the film's "strong pro-Croatian perspective seems more propaganda-like than informative" and most of the dialogue is "stilted writing".
  • They are not considered of the highest literary standard, and their stilted, moralizing tone is of a sort that the author Lewis Carroll lampooned.
  • It follows capital similar to small pillars crowned with "makara" brackets if eight stilted pillar and dwarfs in the rests.
  • Her film "Yeki Az Mā Do Nafar (One of Our Two)" screened in Iranian halls in 2011. She wrote and directed the film "Principles", which was criticized as stilted and preachy.

  • Has delusions of being an actor, speaks in stilted tongue, as if emoting dialogue… that is when he's not singing and dancing.
  • For the purposes of the propositional calculus a compound proposition can usually be reworded into a series of simple sentences, although the result will probably sound stilted.
  • Stephanie W. of "Dove.org" wrote that while the film "offers predominantly nice production values", some of the performances are "uneven" and several scenes "seem subtly stilted".
  • Writing retrospectively, "Upperstall" stated that "Dil Ki Rani" was a "creaky, tacky and stilted film".
  • When executed badly, a Cardan message stands out because of stilted language and uneven writing.

  • Ground skeleton-stilted houses ("tathu") are built from bamboo, and the roofing is made of leaves of sago palms or roof shingle.
  • "Rhizophora stylosa", the spotted mangrove, red mangrove, small stilted mangrove or stilt-root mangrove, is a tree in the family Rhizophoraceae.
  • Patients with schizophrenia are also known to experience stilted speech.
  • These decisions can transform a fragmented and stilted model into a customer-adaptive enterprise.
  • It was designed to mimic the way "tikling" birds move, including how they jump over branches and avoid farmer-set traps with their long, stilted legs.

  • · Communication: Communication is central to the text. The majority of the characters are stilted, or lacking, in their conversation, which denies Hallie an outlet for her issues.
  • Past Japanese writers also sometimes used "suiko" (water-tiger)" as a stilted [...] term for the "kappa" (aka "kawatarō") in native folklore, even though "Wakan Sansai Zue" had distinguished these as two separate beings.
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