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Перевод: stilted

[прилагательное]
ходящий на ходулях; ходульный; сто`ящий на сваях; высокопарный; напыщенный; неестественный

Тезаурус:

1. Mr Barnes replies: "I cannot stress enough that we have sought sheep to import into the UK that are able to move freely without any signs of stilted action.
2. In 1939, for instance, in an obituary of Ford for The Nineteenth Century and After , he had written of "the stilted language that then passed for "good English" in the arthritic milieu that held control of the respected British critical circles, Newbolt, the backwash of Lionel Johnson, Fred Manning, the Quarterlies and the rest of "em".
3. After a few minutes of stilted, low-voiced conversation, Gladys retreated to her room, and Meryl thankfully resumed her seat in the window.
4. As a result, although the coverage is not as lively or interesting as it would probably be if the editors had more freedom, it is not nearly as stilted as many people feared; it is certainly much better than the terribly restricted and monotonous presentation of the Canadian House of Commons.
5. Peregrine switched the wireless off, imitating the stilted tones of whoever had been reading the news.
6. She tried, but was not pleased with what came out, with the stilted words: - I have been unwell though not of anything infectious but rather a serious lowering of the spirits which I struggle to overcome.
7. Although the question may seem clumsier for it, it is absolutely necessary to give a genuine choice, and even though it may sound stilted to ask, "Do you approve or disapprove of", at least this presents a fair choice.
8. At other times her minimalist approach seems vaguely stilted, and even her immensely watchable face can't carry the day.
9. Edmund Barham's wooden acting as Carlos would have mattered less if he had been vocally more alluring and if his stilted phrasing had taken a hint from Mark Elder's conducting.
10. The Lapp speaks no English and we have a stilted conversation through Odd-Knut.
11. The idea behind the language is to enable untrained operators to scan through a data base posing questions in ordinary English, rather than in the stilted query languages that most database systems involve.
12. It veers from pieces that sound stilted and scripted to free-form passages when the Jamesons hold what they consider to be a conversation.
13. The white and the gold together shone in holy radiance, and even in the stilted emphasis of embroidery the angel was watchful in its fluttering, heaven-touched thread.