Affected and Spurious

Affected

Affected adjective - Lacking in natural or spontaneous quality.
Usage example: an affected southern accent

Spurious is a synonym for affected in artificial topic. In some cases you can use "Spurious" instead an adjective "Affected", when it comes to topics like pretended, changed in a bad or artificial way.

Spurious

Spurious adjective - Lacking in natural or spontaneous quality.
Usage example: claimed that the governor's election-year enthusiasm for conservation was spurious, since he had cut funding for state parks

Affected is a synonym for spurious in counterfeit topic. Sometimes you can use "Affected" instead an adjective "Spurious".

Nearby Word: spuriously
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