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agonistic, strained

adj. struggling for effect; "agonistic poses"

constrained, forced, strained

adj. lacking spontaneity; not natural; "a constrained smile"; "forced heartiness"; "a strained smile"

labored, laboured, strained

adj. lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating"

halting

adj. fragmentary or halting from emotional strain; "uttered a few halting words of sorrow"

weighty

adj. weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry; "weighty problems"

artificial, contrived, hokey, stilted

adj. 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"

constrained, forced, strained

adj. lacking spontaneity; not natural; "a constrained smile"; "forced heartiness"; "a strained smile"

elocutionary

adj. (used of style of speaking) overly embellished; "an elocutionary Oxonian delivery"

mannered

adj. having unnatural mannerisms; "brief, mannered and unlifelike idiom"

plummy

adj. (of a voice) affectedly mellow and rich; "the radio announcer's plummy voice"

agonistic, strained

adj. struggling for effect; "agonistic poses"

artificial, contrived, hokey, stilted

adj. 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"

elocutionary

adj. (used of style of speaking) overly embellished; "an elocutionary Oxonian delivery"

mannered

adj. having unnatural mannerisms; "brief, mannered and unlifelike idiom"

plummy

adj. (of a voice) affectedly mellow and rich; "the radio announcer's plummy voice"

agrestic

adj. (of behavior) rustic and uncouth; "the agrestic behavior of a country boy"

gawky, clumsy, clunky, ungainly, unwieldy

adj. lacking grace in movement or posture; "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"; "clumsy fingers"; "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"; "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair"

wooden

adj. lacking ease or grace; "the actor's performance was wooden"; "a wooden smile"

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