Affectations is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for AFFECTATIONS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• AFFECTATION, the act of taking on an attitude not natural to oneself or not genuinely felt
• behaviour, speech, or writing that is pretentious and designed to impress
• a studied display of real or pretended feeling
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act of taking on or displaying an attitude or mode of behavior not natural to oneself or not genuinely felt; speech or conduct not natural to onesel; artificiality

Words related to AFFECTATIONS

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How to use AFFECTATIONS in a sentence

• What I liked about him, besides his boundless genius, was his generosity of spirit as well as of purse, and his utter contempt of all the affectations of literature.
• Throughout, she had the cleanness, the freshness, the freedom from affectations which Dory had learned could be got only by large expenditure.
• She was accordingly sworn, without anything occurring to alarm her affectations, or to apprise her of what might be the sad result of the act.
• We, therefore, rated him as roundly as we decently could do, for the flagrant affectations of those early productions of his.
• The flower of Umbrian piety blossomed in the masterpieces of his youth, and faded into dryness in the affectations of his manhood.
• There may be extremes and affectations, and Mary Lamb declared that Wordsworth held it doubtful if a dweller in towns had a soul to be saved.
• Not much of the literature of this time remains in common knowledge, and for examples of these affectations one must turn over the black letter pages of forgotten books.
• Rogers, who felt greatly relieved in transferring her affectations of virtue to a house where she would no longer be overshadowed by the genius of Oldfield.
• The figures are in dignified repose, wholly free from the later affectations of the Elizabethan school yet evidently individual portraits.
• Belles dropped their affectations with their hoops, and ran about the shore blithe-hearted girls again.
• You already play your piece intelligently, with interest and enthusiasm, and without any of the modern, empty affectations.
• I mention, for example, one of the most foolish affectations of modern times.
• He still had the delightful affectations of youth, but wore them with a better grace.
• She seemed to accept his being there as perfectly natural, and she had no sick-room affectations.
• The source of these literary affectations was a bad one.
• The daily life of self-denial, the conversation garnished from Scripture and from the Fathers, had not, after all, been mere priestly affectations.
• In this wonderful combination, his affectations of literature must not be omitted.
• Her affectations were so utterly out of keeping with her round rosy face and tall bouncing figure, I could hardly refrain from laughing as I watched her.
• Notwithstanding his slight affectations, he was a man of finely-tempered judgment.
• The affectations of his style are insignificant and rare.
• He was in the habit of probing his motives to the bottom, and of recording without mercy what he thought his self-deceits and affectations.
• With a touch she reveals the grace of one and the affectations of another subject of her brush, and skilfully renders the varying emotions in the faces of her pictures.
• With keen eye he sees the weaknesses incident to place and power, to the affectations of fashion or the corruptions of the world, the flesh and the devil.

Similar words containing AFFECTATION without suffix s

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