What's the difference between stilted and stinted?

Stilted


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Stilt
  • (a.) Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In sharp contrast, the coverage provided by the various mainstream news channels and newspapers not only seems – with some exceptions – unresponsive and stilted, but often non-existent.
  • (2) Tourists take the children out, to the zoo or downtown,” said the head of one orphanage of 16 children, a small wooden house built on stilts in flooded fields.
  • (3) Look, you can see it here," he says, pointing to a long, low, flat plateau that barely rises above the palms, banana plants and rubber trees that skirt the road and hug the traditional stilted timber houses dotting the lush emerald-green countryside.
  • (4) The houses were built on stilts and connected by thin wooden planks.
  • (5) Old plastic supermarket bags clog the ground under the platform stilts and the smell of sewage is overpowering.
  • (6) Meanwhile , the company's founder Guy Laliberté – the stilt walker who in 2009 became a billionaire space tourist – has said he is "heartbroken" by the traumatic accident.
  • (7) Updated at 1.33am GMT 1.23am GMT Lorde , a 17-year-old who achieved massive international success in about four months, steps on a small, round stage to perform a stilted version of her megahit Royals.
  • (8) It has been a stilted trajectory so far, when you consider the Guardian first wrote about her in 2008, describing her as "the female Frankmusik, the Fisher Price Fischerspooner" based on her debut single !Franchesckaar!
  • (9) My house is on stilts and there are 11 steps up to my front door so by Saturday morning, the water was already very high.
  • (10) The narration was awkward and stilted in a manner that suggested it had been translated into English and back again several times.
  • (11) Instead, the houses are built on stilts – meaning they can be much closer to trees.
  • (12) Initial clinical signs included stilted gait and simultaneous advancement of their pelvic limbs.
  • (13) Sample one of these stilted rorbu – timber-built and each boasting modern kitchens, lounges and nice bathrooms – in the cod-fishing town of Svolvær.
  • (14) Their version of Get Lucky and Freak Out, aided by Stevie Wonder and Nile Rogers, sounds just a little bit stilted, but it might have something to do with this particular recording.
  • (15) It has been claimed that those using social media in an abusive and vindictive way towards this woman are supporters of mine,” said Evans, who beyond a stilted video statement on his release had said nothing as the controversy swirled around him.
  • (16) (There is an ancillary attempt to make himself sound posh by using the stiltedly correct form of "ambassador to the UK".
  • (17) I saw it in Catherine Deneuve and Björk in Dancer in the Dark and in Nicole Kidman in Dogville: a Meg-Ryan-on-Parky glazed look, a hint that they don't quite know what they're doing, or what to make of the stilted script they've been handed.
  • (18) "I represent the people of Xinjiang," Aisikaier says in stilted Mandarin.
  • (19) If successful, it could see rich countries promise not only to cut their emissions but to stump up cash for poor nations to pay for the changes they'll need to protect their towns and villages from those effects of climate change already under way and too late to reverse (think houses on stilts on easily flooded sandbanks in Bangladesh).
  • (20) General clinical symptoms in these animals immediately postexposure were tremors, lethargy, stilted gait, and, in some animals, prostration.

Stinted


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Stint

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We already have a hard enough time trusting our technology and understanding what it’s doing,” says Soltani, who worked on regulation for the Federal Trade Commission with a brief stint at the White House.
  • (2) Today, after stints in the shadows of Whitehall and the private sector, Tim Matthews is back in the limelight as the new chief executive of Remploy, the quango that has been in the eye of a storm over closure of many of its factories providing jobs for people with disabilities.
  • (3) Cartilage segment alignment with focal, complete fracture healing and symmetrical chondrocyte proliferation were seen in fibrogen adhesive-stinted larynges.
  • (4) During his stints in the Bush and Obama administration Comey has continually taken authoritarian and factually dubious public stances both at odds with responsible public policy and sometimes the law.
  • (5) With a high level of English gleaned from an Erasmus stint in Oxford, she was eager to move to London.
  • (6) Tony Abbott’s chief of staff, Peta Credlin, was informed of Stuart Robert’s plans to travel directly from a controversial stint in China to an official commitment in Singapore, a committee has been told.
  • (7) Smith did his stint in a far-flung corner of the oil empire, as all ambitious Shell employees are required to do, spending four and a half years in Malaysia and Brunei along with spells in the Middle East and the US and as head of technology at Shell Chemicals.
  • (8) During his long stint in the witness stand, Harris was questioned at length about why he expressed abject remorse to the father for his actions, offering a little more credible explanation than he felt ending the relationship had upset the woman.
  • (9) 2010: Sir Terry Leahy, by now regarded as one of Britain’s most successful businessmen, announces plans to retire after a 14-year stint as chief executive saying he felt he had achieved his aim to “develop a purpose and values that could sustain Tesco through its challenges.” 2011: Phil Clarke becomes chief executive in March just before announcing record profits of £3.8bn .
  • (10) Even in the past few months, KC Grad has gained new neighbours, including the Ben Akiba comedy club – which relocated to Savamala after a stint in the city centre – as well as the Berliner beer hall.
  • (11) Rock has faced calls to walk away from his second stint as host in protest at the US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ failure to nominate a single actor from black or ethnic minority backgrounds for the second year running.
  • (12) His stint in space marks a shift in the astronaut breed, away from the robotic iciness of Nasa's early crews to the more modern species that openly revels in the wonder of falling round the Earth.
  • (13) He attended the Sorbonne and went into journalism via reporting during Indira Gandhi's Indian emergency, followed by stints on the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo, later the Economist.
  • (14) The club’s former academy head had been widely tipped to replace previous incumbent Darko Milanic, who was in charge for just 32 days, and this permanent appointment follows three separate stints as caretaker manager at Elland Road for the former Barnsley player.
  • (15) And then, in 1937, she married Sydney Oswald Spark, otherwise known as "SOS", an older man and, apparently, "a borderline case", about to embark on a three-year stint as a schoolteacher in Rhodesia.
  • (16) He has taken on stints as a stable hand, been a door-to-door salesman and set up stages for local concerts: rarely does David Pena turn down a job.
  • (17) Cellino raised eyebrows this summer when he appointed Hockaday, whose previous managerial experience was limited to an unimpressive stint at non-league Forest Green Rovers.
  • (18) A guest stint for anyone can only harm you and coming back without any sort of plan and substance is always a recipe for disaster.
  • (19) Totally, unbelievably untrue, but it does create doubt and they just drive right through that.” The appearance, her fourth on the late-night talk show circuit after stints on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the Late Show With Stephen Colbert and the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, also had lighter moments.
  • (20) If Hiddink takes the job it will be the second interim stint from the Dutchman after he took charge for three and a half months at the end of the 2008-09 season when Luiz Felipe Scolari was sacked, and he went on to win the FA Cup.

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