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nouna deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
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Definition that contains affectation
- modest free from pomp or affectation
- simplicity absence of affectation or pretense
- unpretentious lacking pretension or affectation
- hogarth English artist noted for a series of engravings that satirized the affectations of his time (1697-1764)
- coyness the affectation of being demure in a provocative way
- radical chic an affectation of radical left-wing views and the fashionable dress and lifestyle that goes with them
- demureness the affectation of being demure in a provocative way
- simmpleness absence of affectation or pretense
- unliterary marked by lack of affectation or pedantry
- nonliterary marked by lack of affectation or pedantry