Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In an affected or assumed manner; with affectation; hypocritically; with more show than reality: as, to walk affectedly; affectedly civil.
- With tender care; lovingly.
Wiktionary
- adv. In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than reality.
- adv. obsolete lovingly; with tender care
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than reality.
- adv. obsolete Lovingly; with tender care.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in an affected manner
Etymologies
- affected + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Yes," he replied, drawling out the name affectedly, "I am M. Wilkie.”
“An _if_, or a _but_, or a mortified look, or a languid defence, or an ambiguous shake of the head, or a hasty word affectedly recalled, will demolish a character more effectually, than the whole artillery of malice when openly levelled against it.”
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“affectedly' she had killed herself, and turned away from it.”
“See you in Sochi," the Russians 'somewhat affectedly chummy slogan for the 2014 Games, seems to emblematize their collective desire for a very different outcome this time.”
“The play into film that so captured hearts with Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman was for me, at least, completely unmoving, due to the affectedly mannered Ms. Redgrave.”
“The play into film that so captured hearts with Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman was for me, at least, completely unmoving, due to the affectedly mannered Ms. Redgrave, who seems to have grown more stagy with every role, including those in films.”
“Sure, the tartan, the pipes and the slightly sentimental allegiances had crept back, but they were tourist attractions contrasting affectedly with the drab slab functional housing round the commercially regenerated modern city of Glasgow.”
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“They were wonderful places for storing rowing machines, exercycles and steppers, she thought, affectedly, as if she were Louis XII.”
“I looked at them as the media's equivalent of carnival barkers -- cut-rate provocateurs spouting amplified, affectedly shocking nonsense aimed at whipping their audience into a feeding frenzy while enticing new recruits into the tent by playing on their fears of liberal-agenda infestation.”
““Out upon you,” said the lady, laughing affectedly;”
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