a gaiting style; very choppy with lots of up and down bounce due to straight angulation

Stiff jerking gait caused by non-flexing joints

artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"

Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation.