Unnatural sounding and overformal (7) |
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Unnatural, like a circus performer? (7) |
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Awkwardly formal |
Wall Street Journal |
25 Nov 2023 |
Wooden support used to raise contents of beds |
The Times Cryptic |
17 Nov 2023 |
Laboured; stiff |
The Telegraph Quick |
16 Dec 2022 |
Unnaturally formal, as prose |
The Washington Post Sunday |
13 Mar 2022 |
Overly formal |
Newsday |
05 Oct 2020 |
Stiffly phrased |
Thomas Joseph |
05 Jun 2020 |
Unnatural |
The Telegraph Quick |
04 Jun 2020 |
Old Bob's inclined to be very formal |
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Awkward when trying to gain height thus? |
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Stiff, as writing |
USA Today |
14 Jul 2019 |
Stiff and unnatural |
The Sun Two Speed |
13 Jul 2019 |
Prow on sloop inclined to be wooden |
The Sun Two Speed |
13 Jul 2019 |
Awkward son went off the straight and narrow |
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Stiff, as writing |
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Son inclined to be awkward |
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Hardly natural-sounding |
Wall Street Journal |
16 Apr 2018 |
Stiff, unnatural |
The Times Concise |
19 Jan 2018 |
Hardly natural-sounding |
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Leader of society, inclined to be stiff |
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Overly formal |
Wall Street Journal |
10 Jun 2017 |
Wooden ship's prow heeled over |
The Telegraph Toughie |
13 Apr 2017 |
Artificially formal |
Universal |
22 Nov 2016 |
Like a circus performer who gets high? |
Universal |
18 Nov 2016 |
Poorly expressed section, with a bias |
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Overly formal |
LA Times Daily |
01 Oct 2016 |
Unnatural eateries? |
Wall Street Journal |
23 Sep 2016 |
Stiffly formal |
Family Time |
06 Jun 2016 |
Show's chief editor with an inclination to interrupt and to be pompous |
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Affected, in a way |
The Washington Post |
23 Jan 2016 |
Overly formal |
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Like a circus performer who gets high? |
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Artificially formal |
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Awkward |
The Telegraph Quick |
09 Sep 2015 |
Pompous knights finally unseated in joust |
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Pompous, like one able to look down from a great height? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
08 May 2015 |
Awkwardly written |
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Unnatural-sounding |
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Stiffly formal |
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Like awkwardly formal speech |
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Not natural |
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Stiffly phrased |
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Wooden in manner |
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Wooden in manner |
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Stiffly formal |
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Stiffly formal |
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Awkwardly formal |
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Overly formal, as writing |
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Artificially formal |
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Stiff and pompous |
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Stiffly dignified, as prose |
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Stiffly formal |
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Stiffly dignified, as prose |
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Unnatural-sounding |
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Very constrained |
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Pompous |
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Pompous |
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Wooden |
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Artificially formal |
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Overly formal |
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Contrived |
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Pompous |
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Stiffly dignified |
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Overly formal |
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Unnatural |
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Pompous |
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Artificially formal |
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Stiff |
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Stiffly formal |
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Formal |
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Pompous. |
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Stiffly dignified or formal. |
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Pompous and formal. |
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Artificially formal. |
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