All 4 Uses of
affectation
in
Of Human Bondage
- 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.†
Chpt 41-42 *affectation = behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
- She was wantonly aesthetic; but she was an excellent creature, kind and good natured; and her affectations were but skin-deep.†
Chpt 47-48affectations = things done in an artificial way to make an impression
- 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.†
Chpt 51-52
- She spoke with a cockney accent, but with an affectation of refinement which made every word a feast of fun.†
Chpt 81-82affectation = behaving in an artificial way to make an impression