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affectations
noun
(af-fec-ta-tion)
a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
Synonyms:
affectedness
,
mannerism
,
pose
,
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mannerism
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pose
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airs
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poses
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nasality
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grandiloquence
,
suavity
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wryness
,
pretension
,
pompousness
,
pretentiousness
,
archness
,
nasal twang
,
fustiness
,
knowingness
,
brassiness
,
attitudinizing
,
pomposity
,
hauteur
,
sneery
,
shtick
,
didacticism
,
mannerisms
,
clownishness
,
dandyism
,
facetiousness
,
sunniness
,
bashfulness
,
staginess
,
sensibility
,
sentimentalism
,
archaisms
,
slyness
,
politesse
,
gawkiness
,
smarm
,
fey
,
conceits
,
crudities
,
clownlike
,
drollness
,
bawdiness
,
stylisation
,
triteness
,
nabokovian
,
cliches
,
priggishness
,
stuffiness
,
impishness
,
inflections
,
snobbishness
,
cloy
,
insouciance
,
boyishness
,
chirpiness
,
guttersnipe
,
melodramatics
,
louche
,
overloud
,
roguishness
,
showiness
,
girlishness
,
shtik
,
coquetry
,
primness
,
uptightness
,
superciliousness
,
foppery
,
eccentricity
,
costumery
,
worldliness
,
sumptuousness
,
dreaminess
,
lechery
,
brooklynese
,
kinkiness
,
poeticism
,
garishness
,
daintiness
,
tropes
,
peevishness
,
allusions
,
diphthongs
,
slightness
,
inarticulateness
,
smugness
,
unworldliness
,
winsomeness
,
grotesqueness
,
punchiness
,
breeziness
,
prudery
,
earnestness
,
anglophilia
,
winkingly
,
haughtiness
,
mien
,
romanticism
,
prettiness
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grotesquery
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