affectedly

[uh-fekt-id-lee]

adverb

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

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.

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"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."

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It's now used frequently by conservatives on social media as a derogatory term for people they find affectedly delicate.

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Given the content available and the affectedly simple presentation, it’s hard not to see the new Sarah Palin Channel as simply a moneymaking enterprise.

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“I’m with an old family” was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks’ cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their own kind in Roxbury that you couldn’t even understand them.

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