fussy, fusty, ill-conceived, awkward, lacking in self awareness, mismatched, trying too hard

[cimorene]

Ugh. Dowdy writing. It just gets so... skeevy. That creeping sensation is due to vicarious embarrassment for the writer and personal embarrassment at even reading it, I think.

And you know, struggling to define it better, I can't seem to get round it with another descriptor that's as good. Once I hit on that adjective and it snapped into place as exactly what I meant, it got harder.