affectedly

"And he was called something else before that," the general sighed affectedly.

Over his shoulder he said, affectedly casual, "Has something happened to my parents?"

Bloody nuisance, she thought affectedly, then snorted with amusement.

The veneer of affectedly bored gentility dropped away, and his eyes became alert, hard.

The hyphenated phrase now covers anything ineffectual or affectedly sentimental.

"I asked a civil question, and I expect a civil answer," he said affectedly.

She picked up a newspaper lying about and began leafing through it with an affectedly breezy air.

He adjusted the stained cloth which, affectedly, hung from his hairy fore-arm.

Very affectedly he gazed down at the dirt as though to let tears of happiness splash into it undetected.

It is all too affectedly dramatic.

This Musketeer had just come off guard, complained of having a cold, and coughed from time to time affectedly.

If anything, Ms. Fleming has sometimes been faulted for singing that can seem affectedly expressive.

Kharl brushes back a stray reddish hair, almost absently, yet affectedly.

The voice was affectedly throaty.

He coughed affectedly, sounding for all he was worth like the stuffy, stereotypical English gentleman.

"Leave it to the Equations," said Dezhnev in an affectedly pious tone.

I wanted - " He mouthed affectedly.

'Like most creative people,' he said affectedly, 'I'm very easily bored.'

Affectedly feminine and genuinely incompetent.

Felicity laughed affectedly.

Rumata spun around and found himself peering into the affectedly smiling face of Don Reba.

Mr. Weston-- (laughing affectedly) I must protest against that.

"We could have been ..." he hesitated affectedly, "... planted!"

"Save your apologies, good Dionus," he lisped affectedly.

Yet the choreography is anything but academic and, in fact, the six soloists in the first half are almost affectedly boyish and girlish.