affectation
Example Sentences
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Vocal fry is a normal vocal affectation — used by both men and women — where you drop your voice for emphasis.
From Salon • Sep. 12, 2024
Some said that what we saw as a lack of intelligence was in fact a regional affectation: Walker speaks the way many Black people in Georgia speak.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2022
She embodies Wednesday with her flat affectation and utter disdain for her peers.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2022
But “Decision to Leave” is also needlessly complicated and at times almost impossible to follow, its narrative inscrutability often coming across less as the result of nonlinear storytelling than as simply a cinematic affectation.
From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2022
Rollins noted Brekker’s bare feet and prison clothes, the hands shorn of his legendary black gloves—a ridiculous affectation.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
Vocabulary lists containing affectation
The Great Gatsby
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Crime and Punishment
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