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• n  the quality of being wooden and awkward
  he criticized the woodenness of the acting
  there was a certain woodenness in his replies

• To be called a square or a straight is not exactly a compliment in some circles, where the words imply a certain woodenness and an unadventurous approach to life.
• Between Actor Taylor's woodenness and the coyly pallid playing of Actress Kerr, the struggle seems tame enough to justify one unconsciously comic lapse into domesticity.
• The alliteration was admirable, but Barry proved once again that he delivers a formal speech with woeful woodenness.

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• Henry David Thoreau in Yahoo! News
  As Thoreau wrote: "Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concentric layers of woodenness in the dead dry life of society ...... may unexpectedly come forth."