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It is not affectatious, and does not seek to manipulate God.
In these countries, the use of any title by an engineering graduate is deemed not only unnecessary but affectatious.
The critics described her as overestimated and unnable to live up to the high expectations, beautiful, elegant and with good posture but artificial and affectatious.
I too halted and turned with a questioning look, whereupon his unsmiling face rose to meet mine, "To explain what drives you to gnash your teeth between the ham and pudding, to explain why you twice looked at me with anger behind your affectatious smile."