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affectedly

American

[uh-fekt-id-lee] / əˈfɛkt ɪd li /

adverb

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

Example Sentences

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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

Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

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