affectation

Example Sentences

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It plays out like a drunken freestyling session in your coolest friend’s apartment — with lines like “you are not that bitch” delivered with a heavily-accented affectation that feels seductive, but more importantly, unbothered.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025

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

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

And there was Robbie, who exasperated her with his affectation of distance, and his grand plans which he would only discuss with her father.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan