THESAURUS
affected, dainty, dandyish, delicate, effeminate, elegant, euphemistic, euphuistic, exquisite, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, foppish, formalistic, fussy, goody good-good, goody-goody, la-di-da, namby-pamby, nice, overnice, overprecise, overrefined, particular, pedantic, pernickety, persnickety, precieuse, precious, precisian, precisianistic, precisionistic, pretentious, puristic, put-on, simpering, squeamish, stilted, too-too
ROGET THESAURUS
Affectation
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affectation, affectedness, acting a part, pretense 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, 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, conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
