contrived, adj.
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showing effects of planning or manipulation
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contrived
artificially formal
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artificial contrived hokey stilted
sample sentences
"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"
semantic pointers
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