AFFECTEDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does affectedly mean? 

• AFFECTEDLY (adverb)
  The adverb AFFECTEDLY has 1 sense:

1. in an affected manner

  Familiarity information: AFFECTEDLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AFFECTEDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an affected manner

Pertainym:

affected (speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression)

 Context examples 

Oh! Mr. Weston—(laughing affectedly) I must protest against that.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Then forming his features into a set smile, and affectedly softening his voice, he added, with a simpering air, “Have you been long in Bath, madam?”

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

There now, said Miss Steele, affectedly simpering, everybody laughs at me so about the Doctor, and I cannot think why.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

One of the girls kept laughing affectedly, and saying, "Now Professor," in a coquettish tone, and the other pronounced her German with an accent that must have made it hard for him to keep sober.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The thing is determined, that is (laughing affectedly) as far as I can presume to determine any thing without the concurrence of my lord and master.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

To be sure you must know better than that. (Laughing affectedly.)—No, no; they were shut up in the drawing-room together, and all I heard was only by listening at the door.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Her manners showed good sense and good breeding; they were neither shy nor affectedly open; and she seemed capable of being young, attractive, and at a ball without wanting to fix the attention of every man near her, and without exaggerated feelings of ecstatic delight or inconceivable vexation on every little trifling occurrence.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The woman was better off; she might have the assistance of fine clothes, and the privilege of bashfulness, but the man had only his own good sense to depend on; and when she considered how peculiarly unlucky poor Mr. Elton was in being in the same room at once with the woman he had just married, the woman he had wanted to marry, and the woman whom he had been expected to marry, she must allow him to have the right to look as little wise, and to be as much affectedly, and as little really easy as could be.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)