unspontaneous

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The story describes the contradiction of the philosopher’s “paean to spontaneity and her own nature, the least spontaneous, most doggedly, nervously, even fanatically unspontaneous I know.”

From The New Yorker • Jul. 18, 2016

Eight numbers were choreographed by Mr. Galletto; all too often it seemed that tango was an awkward pretext for a more artfully unspontaneous and strenuous kind of movement.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2013

Then there are the unspontaneous and nervous speeches.

From New York Times • May 18, 2010

Other protesters staged equally unspontaneous demonstrations in a dozen provincial capitals.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then Pallas struck The suitors with delirium; wide they stretch’d Their jaws with unspontaneous laughter loud; Their meat dripp’d blood; tears fill’d their eyes, and dire Presages of approaching woe, their hearts.

From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William