Sample Sentences foraffectation (editor-reviewed)
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She is comfortable in her own skin and meets strangers without affectation.affectation = behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
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Her apparent wealth was proven to be an affectation.affectation = false display made to impress
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He's a good actor. He can change affectations and mannerisms like most people change clothes.affectations = artificial behaviors exhibited to make impressions
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Those who knew me formerly thought my name was freakish and an affectation of Frenchiness. (source)affectation = something taken on artificially to make an impression
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In many senses, the Baroque period was characterized by vanity or affectation. (source)affectation = behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
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She speaks in the up-country twang of the poor South, not the refined drawl of the Delta, an affectation borrowed by the rich people of our own region. (source)
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I must be getting on. Thank you for your society. (He reflects.) Unless I smoke another pipe before I go. ... But how am I to sit down now, without affectation, now that I have risen? Without appearing to –how shall I say– without appearing to falter. (source)affectation = behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
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"I'm Cinna, your stylist," he says in a quiet voice somewhat lacking in the Capitol's affectations. (source)affectations = things done in an artificial way to make an impression
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Eunice [affectedly casual]: (source)affectedly = pretending to be
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Zooey gave a genuine roar of laughter, as if he clearly relished seeing any affectation brought to light, his own included. (source)affectation = artificial behavior to make an impression
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Thinking back on it, there was something affected about the way she paused when she mentioned the first husband, the casting down of the gaze, the catch in the throat, the slight quiver of lips, just as there was about the walloping energy and the joking, the lively, heavy-footed charm, the way even her slights landed softly, parachuted by a reassuring wink and laugh. Perhaps they were both trumped-up affectations or perhaps neither was. (source)affectations = things done in an artificial way to make an impression
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...I could not doubt that you murmured the word 'stereotomy,' a term very affectedly applied to this species of pavement. (source)affectedly = in an artificial manner to make an impression
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Fagin's affectation of humanity (source)affectation = behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
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[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. (source)affectations = things done in an artificial way to make an impression
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"I asked a civil question, and I expect a civil answer," he said affectedly.† (source)
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It means 'father' in the Urgal tongue, an affectation that pleases him. (source)affectation = behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
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