affectatious
Pretentious, artificial, fake, sham, feigned; doing something just for show.
Adjective
- Pretentious, artificial, fake, sham, feigned; doing something just for show.
- At the same time, American intellectual and artistic elites, … help create a sophisticated, if sometimes affectatious urban mentality. - 2004, “Chapter Two”, in The Hidden Handshake: National Identity and Europe in the...
Origin
From affectation + -ous or + -ious.