unnatural
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It would mention his role in drafting the Fairfax Resolves at Mount Vernon in 1774, which condemned the slave trade as “wicked cruel and unnatural” and called for putting “an entire Stop” to it.
Arthur Julian, a writer on “F Troop,” noted that “real audiences sound phonier than the laugh track. Sometimes they freeze up and act unnatural.”
Throughout, she’ll allude to stories of mistreated animals and the Griffith Park fire of 1933, heightening the sense that we are in the presence of unnatural occurrences.
From Los Angeles Times
Their lip movements are typically dictated by fixed rules, which leads to mechanical, unnatural expressions that feel unsettling.
From Science Daily
Loyalist fury was compounded by what they considered to be an “unnatural” rebellion.
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