affectedly

American  

[uh-fekt-id-lee] / əˈfɛkt ɪd li /

adverb

1. in a way characterized by affectation; artificially or with a false manner of speaking or moving adopted for effect.

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Example Sentences

Mulligan is so good here that she lays bare some of her co-star’s more studied artifice, including a few overly imitative Bernstein-isms and some affectedly nasal vocal delivery.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2023

"Here, Comer speaks in an affectedly sanded-down version of her own Scouse accent, like Tessa has deliberately smoothed out her vowels in the name of blending in with her posher peers."

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2022

I had handwritten it, not affectedly, but just because that was how I had always written essays.

From The Guardian • Oct. 6, 2012

And so we have an affectedly elegant Elvis Presley photographed by Alfred Wertheimer in “Elvis: Going Home, July 4, 1956.”

From New York Times • Dec. 24, 2010

She was vexed, too, at finding that David Bligh had been invited, and that he was talking affectedly about good music and sounding with his fluty voice rather like an undergraduate himself.

From The Vanity Girl by MacKenzie, Compton