affectation in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

affectation in the PONS Dictionary

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There is a curious affectation about his stylea falsetto notewhich, notwithstanding all his efforts to please, is often irritating to the reader.
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From this time dates her affectation of the title of baroness.
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You can take on the affectations and the postures of other places and even learn to speak their ways.
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The sets, the costumes, the cars, the vocal affectations neither parody nor slavish recreation.
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He was always perfect in his parts, indefatigable in industry, and wholly free from affectation.
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There is also an emphasis on candid and casual moments with very little affectation.
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With an outward affectation of godliness, he went to every excess of cruelty and extortion.
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But beneath its indie affectations it is really another contemplation of generational misunderstanding.
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It pleased him to affect a vein of melancholy, and this affectation has been reproduced by his followers.
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Mallet finds himself unexpectedly attracted to the young womanto her simplicity, her lack of affectation, her honesty.
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