All 3 Uses of
affectation
in
Notes from the Underground
- I bet you think I am writing all this from affectation, to be witty at the expense of men of action; and what is more, that from ill-bred affectation, I am clanking a sword like my officer.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- I bet you think I am writing all this from affectation, to be witty at the expense of men of action; and what is more, that from ill-bred affectation, I am clanking a sword like my officer.†
Chpt 1.2
- And how few, how few words, I thought, in passing, were needed; how little of the idyllic (and affectedly, bookishly, artificially idyllic too) had sufficed to turn a whole human life at once according to my will.†
Chpt 2.8
Definition:
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(affectation) behaving in an artificial way to make an impression