affectatiousadj.

1676 J. Moxon Regulæ Trium Ordinum 52 Some have made all these Small Letters with little Beaks on the Angle of every Return..but I account them Needless, Troublesom, and Affectatious.

1837 T. Smith Lemprière's Classical Dict. (rev. ed.) 510/2 The Phæacians..were naturally dull, effeminate, and so affectatious, that the ancients gave them the name of parasites.

1857 R. S. Mackenzie Fraserian Papers W. Maginn 66 Lord John Russell hesitated in delivery, and had then a double allowance of the usual English haw-haw parliamentary affectatious manner.

1931 Times 21 May 9/5 Old buildings, he said, taught us that our new buildings should not be affectatious reproductions of the old, but should be equally in tune with the thought and methods of the day.

1968 Burlington Mag. Aug. 465/2 To say that Herbert Read, in spite of his gifts and experience, was never thus affectatious, condescending or proud, would not have known how to assume such a posture or inflection, is to put the matter too negatively.

1997 Rhetoric Rev. 16 71 On one end was the subjectivity of the genteel, affectatious man of letters, the belletristic ideal taken too far.