All 5 Uses of
affectation
in
Sense and Sensibility
- Willoughby's behaviour in taking leave of them, his embarrassment, and affectation of cheerfulness, and, above all, his unwillingness to accept her mother's invitation, a backwardness so unlike a lover, so unlike himself, greatly disturbed her.†
Chpt 15
- "I suspect," said Elinor, "that to avoid one kind of affectation, Edward here falls into another.†
Chpt 18
- He is fastidious and will have an affectation of his own.†
Chpt 18 *
- "There now," said Miss Steele, affectedly simpering, "everybody laughs at me so about the Doctor, and I cannot think why.†
Chpt 32
- Laughing affectedly.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(affectation) behaving in an artificial way to make an impression