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• For many 'home' is an affectation when used anywhere that 'house' would be appropriate, as in 'Home for Sale'.From the entry anywhere
• Reviewing a collection of Tom Wolfe’s journalism, Hitchens deplored Wolfe’s affectations and his plummy conservative politics.2024 January 1, Dwight Garner, “Want to Feel, Intellectually, Like Someone Is Rotating Your Tires?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry plummy
• With his pedo-stache firmly penciled on, Kline nails the accent, the affectations and the alcoholism.2014 September 10, Meg Elison, “Dakota Fanning’s latest flaccidly flops”, in The Daily Californian, University of California, Berkeley. From the entry pedo-stache
• A Ken doll, dressed in ironed khakis and his usual affectation: a brown felt Indiana Jones fedora.2013, Cherry Adair, Relentless. From the entry Ken doll
• Students lapse to interjectural speech, gibberish, mimic any dialect, brogue, defect and affectation of speech.1969, Granville Stanley Hall, Adolescence, volume 2, page 403. From the entry interjectural
• Such a child! you'd think first thing, noting her vitalic freshness, her little-girl lack of affectation.1935 January, Mary Watkins Reeves, “Subject: Frances Langford; Object: Matrimony”, in Radio Mirror, volume 3, number 3, New York…. From the entry vitalic
• Woodrow Wilson swears like a man to whom swearing is an affectation cultivated late in life.1913 February 22, “Perspective Impressions”, in Theodore F. Bonnet, editor, Town Talk: The Pacific Weekly, volume XXI, number 1070, San…. From the entry ladilike
• Though she's superficial to the point of noxiousness and obsessed with amassing cultural cache, her ridiculous affectations make up for it.2007 June 8, “The Treatment”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry noxiousness
• She was wantonly aesthetic; but she was an excellent creature, kind and good natured; and her affectations were but skin-deep.1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XLVII, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC. From the entry skin-deep
• Having undertaken to modernize Chaucer, he avoids the affectation of archaic words; he has no "eftsoonery." Some of his phrases are very modern indeed.1933 October 21, Robert Kilburn Root, “Chaucer Modernized”, in Henry Seidel Canby, editor, The Saturday Review of Literature, volume X…. From the entry eftsoonery
• As much the anti-hero initially as Thorpe is anti-villain, Tinley's function in the first volume is to expose to Catherine various modes of triviality and affectation.1994, Alistair M. Duckworth, The Improvement of the Estate: A Study of Jane Austen's Novels, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press…. From the entry anti-villain

Meaning of affectation

1. noun An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show.
2. noun An unusual mannerism.
3. noun An ostentatious fondness for something.

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Questions about affectation in a sentence

How do you use affectation in a sentence?

Affectation is used as a noun. For example: “For many 'home' is an affectation when used anywhere that 'house' would be appropriate, as in 'Home for Sale'.”

What is a short sentence with affectation?

“Students lapse to interjectural speech, gibberish, mimic any dialect, brogue, defect and affectation of speech.”

What does affectation mean?

Affectation means an attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show.