Sample sentences for AFFECTATION

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Definition

behaving in an artificial way to make an impression

affectation = behaving in an artificial way to make an impression

affectation = false display made to impress

He's a good actor. He can change affectations and mannerisms like most people change clothes.

affectations = artificial behaviors exhibited to make impressions

A plain speaker without airs or affectations, the chief fostered a spirit of collegiality among...
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist -- http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/09/04/rehnquist.reaction/index.html (retrieved 04/03/08)

affectations = things done in an artificial way to make an impression

"I'm Cinna, your stylist," he says in a quiet voice somewhat lacking in the Capitol's affectations.
Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games

affectations = things done in an artificial way to make an impression

Zooey gave a genuine roar of laughter, as if he clearly relished seeing any affectation brought to light, his own included.
J.D. Salinger -- Franny and Zooey

affectation = artificial behavior to make an impression

In many senses, the Baroque period was characterized by vanity or affectation.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World

affectation = behaving in an artificial way to make an impression

affectations = things done in an artificial way to make an impression

affectation = behaving in an artificial way to make an impression

Those who knew me formerly thought my name was freakish and an affectation of Frenchiness.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

affectation = something taken on artificially to make an impression

affectation = behaving in an artificial way to make an impression

Though his voice has yet to change, he has no feminine affectations.
Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen

affectations = artificial traits put on to make an impression

What I finally realized were affectations—the smoking jacket that he sometimes wore to school and his foreign cigarettes, which were actually his mother's—I thought were evidence of his higher breeding.
Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones

affectations = things done in an artificial way to make an impression

[Speaking of Jordan Baker] The bored haughty face that she turned to the world concealed something — most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning — and one day I found what it was. ... She was incurably dishonest.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

affectations = things done in an artificial way to make an impression

affectedly = pretending to be

affectation = behaving in an artificial way to make an impression

If Dolores knew, she would crawl up in her blanket of affectations and die circumspectly.
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

affectations = things done in an artificial way to make an impression

I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his case.
Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

affectation = behaving in an artificial way to make an impression

The peculiar man waved a lazy wave at Ford and with an appalling affectation of nonchalance said, "Ford, hi, how are you?"
Douglas Adams -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

affectation = behaving in an artificial way to make an impression

no ... phrase that might indite the author of affectation;
William Shakespeare -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

affectation = trying to show off

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