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Definition of Stiltedly
1. Adverb. In a stilted manner. "She answered him stiltedly"
Definition of Stiltedly
1. Adverb. Stiffly, or in an unnatural manner ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stiltedly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stiltedly
Literary usage of Stiltedly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Spain: Founded on the Historia de España Y de la Civilización by Charles Edward Chapman, Rafael Altamira (1918)
"Thus the furniture of the earlier years affected twisted and grotesque forms,
while it was later shaped upon stiltedly correct lines. ..."
2. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1882)
"... a great hairy spider walked stickily and stiltedly, with pompous military
exaggeration of gait, up one side of my mosquito- curtain and down the other. ..."
3. The Influence of Milton on English Poetry by Raymond Dexter Havens (1922)
"Its four hundred and seventy Unes praise the salubrious properties of Bristol
waters in as stiltedly Miltonic a fashion as this : Thee the sable Wretch, ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1894)
"In the Times for June 1823 will be found an eulogistic but stiltedly- written
obituary notice of him ; but the writers of obituaries are usually too much ..."
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