"stilted" in the adjective sense
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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