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Definition
behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
- He fancied there was something of affectation in Cronshaw's minute knowledge of cricket; he liked to tantalise people by talking to them of things that obviously bored them; Clutton threw in a question.41-42 — Chapters 41-42 (79% in)
- She was wantonly aesthetic; but she was an excellent creature, kind and good natured; and her affectations were but skin-deep.47-48 — Chapters 47-48 (17% in)
- He did not care any more what his friends thought about him: Cronshaw with his rhetoric, Mrs. Otter with her respectability, Ruth Chalice with her affectations, Lawson and Clutton with their quarrels; he felt a revulsion from them all.51-52 — Chapters 51-52 (75% in)
- She spoke with a cockney accent, but with an affectation of refinement which made every word a feast of fun.81-82 — Chapters 81-82 (65% in)
There are no more uses of "affectation" in Of Human Bondage.
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