stilted

The conversation is stilted, so I ask him to tell me about his life and I tell him about my job.

He picked up his scissors and began to cut, hoping that his decades of experience would carry him through the stilted encounters.

The dialogue is stilted, and the accents in the voice acting — particularly Gambit’s confusing, inconsistent Cajun twang — are abominable.

Toossi’s script handles this duality elegantly: The actors speak unaccented, colloquial English when they’re speaking Farsi; when they’re speaking English, their vocabularies scale back, and syntax becomes stilted, indefinite articles get forgotten.

Tinubu, by contrast, said of the show: "Twisted and deeply disturbing, this Ripley feels more sinister and stilted than its predecessors, making the show arduous rather than enticing."