How to Use affectation in a Sentence

affectation

noun

• His French accent is just an affectation.
• The beret is the perfect affectation for the searcher, the seeker and the student.
  — Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2021
• Wright adopted a new middle name, the first of many Welsh affectations.
  — Christopher Benfey, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
• That could well have been an affectation of speech, nothing more.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 2 Oct. 2017
• That can be an accent, or a tone, or some Transatlantic affectation, the voice is always key.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 18 Mar. 2022
• With or without guests, the Watkins charm with heartfelt songs that are earthy, eloquent and free of even a hint of affectation or false emotion.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2022
• For a time, cutting the cord was one of those hipster affectations that came with sacrifices.
  — Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2018
• The album is remarkable not least for its lack of affectation.
  — M.t. Richards, Chicago Tribune, 19 Jan. 2023
• There's some neck rolling and light gay affectations, but Winfrey isn't distracted for long, just long enough to let Lane come up with an answer.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 27 Mar. 2023
• The actors are deft at striking the right balance of affectation and affection.
  — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 1 Oct. 2018
• Very early in the film, Waititi strips Thor of his most iconic affectations: His hammer is destroyed and [gasp] his hair is cut.
  — Tom Philip, GQ, 11 June 2018
• The many affectations that have crept into pop-singer expressive parlance – the Disney-fication of singers – are not to be found here.
  — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 20 Jan. 2018
• With anyone else, Brolin said, this kind of behavior would be an affectation, but not Villeneuve.
  — New York Times, 13 Oct. 2021
• No pretense, no affectation, no empty mannerisms — just the whole truth and nothing but the truth, delivered in great surges of sound.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 17 Mar. 2018
• The clones may share the same face, but the range of personalities, affectations, and demeanors Maslany brought to them were what earned the show its niche army of fans — even if the Television Academy didn't see it.
  — Kathryn Lindsay, refinery29.com, 12 July 2018
• To a man of God, this was a dangerous foreign affectation and betrayal of nature.
  — Ligaya Mishan Kyoko Hamada, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
• The affectation becomes a symbol of conformity, and worse, a betrayal of self.
  — Aisha Harris, New York Times, 10 July 2018
• His nasal affectation echoes that of his musical hero, Bob Dylan.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• These little affectations only add to the overall equipoise, in the same way that a completely bare waiting room is eerie but a waiting room with a ficus evokes no feelings at all.
  — Sasha Chapin, New York Times, 29 May 2018
• Stapleton’s vocals were tender one moment, gritty and blues-drenched the next, rising from a deep growl to a falsetto swoop without a hint of affectation.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2024
• Cobra venom soap to fight skin affectations, Andiroba oil to repel mosquitoes... the girls hardly knew where to turn.
  — Marie Claire, 30 Mar. 2015
• My inner cynic wondered if her cadence was an affectation put on for people like me.
  — Lauren Pinnington, refinery29.com, 17 May 2021
• My growing affectation for him aside, Ethan Winters isn’t likely to enter the pantheon of great video game characters.
  — Washington Post, 14 May 2021
• This man in front of her, after all, with his odd demeanor that might appear as affectation to unsympathetic eyes, had been invited to the gala.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2017
• Holsinger gives them and their husbands a range of upper-middle-class careers, attitudes and affectations.
  — Paul Gleason, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
• Seen from the bottom up, the show progressively dispenses with arid affectation on the way to freshets of inspiration.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
• Forget the outdated ritual of the mother-of-pearl spoon, an affectation born of an era before the invention of stainless steel.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2021
• Neither do the shifts from Shakespearean rhyme to modern sarcasm and affectation.
  — Dan Jakes, Chicago Reader, 8 Feb. 2018
• Sturridge's method affectations fit better for me in a number of past performances.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2018
• Fun but not dumb, and arty without a trace of affectation, the Cars are one of those rare rock groups whose work entertains without becoming condescending.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2019

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