N. affectation, affectedness, acting a part, pretense, (ostentation) 882,
boasting,
charlatanism,
quackery, shallow profundity, pretension, airs,
pedantry,
purism,
precisianism,
euphuism,
teratology,
mannerism, simagree,
grimace,
conceit,
foppery,
dandyism, man millinery,
coxcombry,
puppyism, stiffness,
formality,
buckram,
prudery,
demureness,
coquetry, mock modesty, minauderie,
sentimentalism, mauvais honte, false shame,
affector, performer,
actor,
pedant,
pedagogue,
doctrinaire,
purist,
euphuist,
mannerist, grimacier, lump of affectation, precieuse ridicule, bas bleu, blue stocking,
poetaster,
prig,
charlatan, petit maitre,
flatterer,
coquette,
prude,
puritan V. affect, act a part, put on, give oneself airs,
boast,
coquet,
simper,
mince,
attitudinize,
pose, flirt a fan, overact,
overdo Adj. affected, full of affectation,
pretentious,
pedantic,
stilted, stagy,
theatrical, big-sounding,
ad captandum,
canting,
insincere, not natural, unnatural,
self-conscious, maniere, artificial, overwrought, overdone, overacted,
euphuist, stiff, starch, formal,
prim,
smug,
demure, tire a quatre epingles,
quakerish,
puritanical,
prudish,
pragmatical,
priggish,
conceited,
coxcomical,
foppish,
dandified,
finical,
finikin,
mincing,
simpering,
namby-pamby,
sentimental Phr. "conceit in weakest bodies strongest works"
