What is the meaning of the word 'affected'

affected - artificial; pretended


Some sentence examples which use the word 'affected'

  • He showed affected feelings of sadness when his uncle died.
  • Setch is one of a generation of leading British artists whose work was fundamentally affected by American abstract expressionism in the late 1950s.
  • "All language is excusable in those affected with the malady of the sea," replied the Frenchman, dancing a little to encourage his friend.
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