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What does affectedly mean?

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Adverb
  1. In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than reality.
  2. (obsolete) Lovingly; with tender care.
  3. (obsolete) With intention, intentionally, deliberately.
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His vocabulary, while astonishing and extensive, is not affectedly so.
When the hip and affectedly unaffected get hold of something that belongs culturally to another group, excitement abounds as they then excitedly co-opt it and an open display of competition is set in motion.
Like Thetis, Sara has gone to some lengths to protect her son from the world of his father, a self-important, affectedly mysterious C. I. A. operative named David.
One not hasty to pursue the new Fashion, nor yet affectedly true to his old round Breeches.
They were affectedly looked for and kept by the main traders haberdashers who reserved them for the cabinet makers and the prestigious furniture.
She is certainly not studying the book which she holds on her knee and fingers so affectedly.

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