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mannered

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mannered
adjective
Dornford Yates's highly artificial, mannered prose style:
affected, pretentious, unnatural, artificial, contrived, stilted, stiff, forced, put-on, insincere, theatrical, actorly, elaborate, precious, posed, stagy, camp;
informal pseudo, fakey.
▷antonyms natural, unpretentious.
mannered Oxford Dictionary of English