Both Uses of
affectation
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- But a minute later his face suddenly changed and with a certain assumed slyness and affectation of bravado, he glanced at Raskolnikov, laughed and said: "This morning I went to see Sonia, I went to ask her for a pick-me-up!†
Chpt 1.2affectation = behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
- Mistrustfully and with an affectation of being alarmed and almost affronted, he scanned Raskolnikov's low and narrow "cabin."†
Chpt 2.5 *