stagy, stagey, leaden, overlong, toneless, bland, clunky, ponderous, expository, talky, inexpressive, overfamiliar, formulaic, cliched, perfunctory, cadenced, unaffecting, disjointed, lugubrious, clumsy, affectless, rote, hackneyed, overwrought, inarticulate, trite, dull, slangy, banal, awkward, turgid, melodramatic, conversational, monotonous, amateurish, orotund, hokey, digressive, declamatory, winded, rhythmless, ineloquent, croaky, monosyllabic, overdramatic, unimaginative, unmemorable, wordy, unanimated, unconvincing, florid, garbled, glib, unenlightening, humorless, overdetermined, uninteresting, unentertaining, emotionless, scripted, cutesy, slapdash, comical, unamusing, shavian, teacherly, languid, lumpish, cheesy, verbose, cloying, somnambulistic, unpoetic, terser, pedantic, pretentious, unexpressive, unrevealing, longwinded, droll, uninspired, inelegant, mirthless, jokey, mawkish, deadpan, uninflected, pantomimic, undynamic, soporific, larky, insipid, unmodulated, staccato, histrionic, stentorian, artless, muffled, cringeworthy, snappy, pallid, uninventive, bombastic, incantatory, colloquial, grandiloquent, idiomatic, committal, folksy, uncouth, ungrammatical, ingratiating, mellifluous, noncommittal, rhapsodic, stereotyped, unintelligible, courteous, decorous

puppetry, stiltedly

affected, artificial, contrived, unnatural