affectation

But this is abnormal and rather an affectation of technical skill.

There was no affectation of the fine lady in her self-reproach.

There was no affectation of mystery, no attempt at keeping his experiments a secret.

The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation.

Their affectation is beyond the affectation of woman, and it makes all men sick.

Whether this was from habit or affectation it was not easy to decide.

Do not however think me guilty of an affectation in what I have said of my brother and sister.

Had he said me at first, I should have been above the affectation of mentioning a lawyer.

Besides, he also was beginning to feel ill at ease and vexed at their affectation of silence.

"You come just in time to give him a scolding," he said, with an affectation of liveliness.