1. artificial, contrived, hokey, stilted -- (artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation")
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"His appearance,--I forget what description you gave of his appearance--a sort of raw curate, half strangled with his white neckcloth, and stilted up on his thick-soled high-lows, eh. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte