stilted

When he’s asked about my job, my new career that I’ve built over years now, I’ve felt stilted in how to respond.

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.

Many of the fake social media posts were generated using ChatGPT, the AI-powered chatbot owned by OpenAI, and much of the language in the posts was "stilted" and repetitive, the Times reported.

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