affectedly
Americanadverb
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
"And how is the Conte Capriani?" he continued, "and the charming Ad'lin,--a superb creature, eh?" and Eug�ne Alexander affectedly wafted abroad a kiss from his finger tips.
From 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance by Schubin, Ossip
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