The meaning of Mannered

adjective

Influenced or touched by an external factor.

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Affected areas

verb

Have an effect on; make a difference to.

Usage examples:

The dampness began to affect my health

verb

Pretend to have or feel (something).

Usage examples:

As usual i affected a supreme unconcern

adjective

Made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally, especially as a copy of something natural.

Usage examples:

Her skin glowed in the artificial light

adjective

Made by people, often as a copy of something natural

Usage examples:

Artificial flowers, artificial grass, an artificial leg, an artificial smile, the actors were encou…

adjective

Not sincere

Usage examples:

Their cheerfulness seemed rather strained and artificial.

noun

A place with temporary accommodation of huts, tents, or other structures, typically used by soldiers, refugees, or travelling people.

Usage examples:

Thousands of local residents face serious health problems in overcrowded refugee camps and temporar…

verb

Live for a time in a tent, especially while on holiday.

Usage examples:

Holiday parks in which you can camp or stay in a chalet

adjective

Deliberately exaggerated and theatrical in style, typically for humorous effect.

Usage examples:

The movie seems more camp than shocking or gruesome

adjective

Deliberately created rather than arising naturally or spontaneously.

Usage examples:

Here, however, several contrived situations are grafted into the plot to generate artificial tension.

verb

Create or bring about (an object or a situation) by deliberate use of skill and artifice.

Usage examples:

His opponents contrived a cabinet crisis

adjective

Involving many carefully arranged parts or details; detailed and complicated in design and planning.

Usage examples:

Elaborate security precautions

verb

Develop or present (a theory, policy, or system) in further detail.

Usage examples:

The theory was proposed by cope and elaborated by osborn

adjective

Containing a lot of connected parts or many complicated details

Usage examples:

An elaborate ceremony, an elaborate fireworks display, they had created elaborate computer programs…

adjective

Obtained or imposed by coercion or physical power.

Usage examples:

There was no sign of a forced entry

verb

Make a way through or into by physical strength; break open by force.

Usage examples:

The back door of the bank was forced

adjective

Involving physical, often violent, strength or power

Usage examples:

There were no obvious signs of forced entry into the house., the plane made a forced landing in den…

adjective

Not expressing genuine feelings.

Usage examples:

She flashed him an insincere smile

adjective

Not feeling, believing, or meaning something although you pretend to; not sincere

Usage examples:

An insincere promise/offer, there’s often a bit of insincerity in these speeches.

verb

Present or constitute (a problem or danger).

Usage examples:

The sheer number of visitors is posing a threat to the area

verb

Puzzle or perplex (someone) with a question or problem.

Usage examples:

We have thus posed the mathematician and the historian

noun

A way of standing or sitting, especially in order to be photographed, painted, or drawn.

Usage examples:

Photographs of boxers in ferocious poses

adjective

Of great value; not to be wasted or treated carelessly.

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Precious works of art

noun

Used as a term of address for a beloved person.

Usage examples:

Don't be frightened, my precious

adjective

Of very great value or worth

Usage examples:

Precious memories, children are our most precious resource., diamonds and rubies are precious stone…

adjective

Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed.

Usage examples:

Pretentious art films

adjective

Trying to give the appearance of great importance, esp. in a way that is obvious

Usage examples:

Pretentious restaurants, pretentious, silly poetry

adjective

Not genuine; spurious or sham.

Usage examples:

We are talking about real journalists and not the pseudo kind

noun

A pretentious or insincere person.

Usage examples:

The arty chat of a campus pseudo

combining form

Supposed or purporting to be but not really so; false; not genuine.

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Pseudonym

idiom

Something intended to deceive

noun

A deception; a hoax.

Usage examples:

It's hard to tell if it's brilliant or a put-on, or just a brilliant put-on.

idiom

To joke with someone by saying something that is hard for the person to believe

Usage examples:

"i hear joe’s quit his job." "you’re putting me on!", doctors put her on antibiotics after discover…

adjective

Excessively theatrical; exaggerated.

Usage examples:

A stagy melodramatic voice

adjective

Like in a theatre and not very natural

adjective

Not easily bent or changed in shape; rigid.

Usage examples:

A stiff black collar

noun

A dead body.

Usage examples:

When the bodies of various stiffs start disappearing from the local morgue, the police are baffled …

verb

Cheat (someone) out of something, especially money.

Usage examples:

Several workers were stiffed out of their pay

adjective

(of a manner of talking or writing) stiff and self-conscious or unnatural.

Usage examples:

We made stilted conversation

adjective

(of behavior, speech, or writing) too formal and not smooth or natural

Usage examples:

Legal language tends to be very stilted.

adjective

(of a person's behaviour or way of speaking or writing) too formal and not smooth or natural

Usage examples:

He writes in a formal and somewhat stilted style., the dialogue sounded stilted and unnatural, perh…

adjective

Relating to acting, actors, or the theatre.

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Theatrical productions

noun

A professional actor or actress.

Usage examples:

A boarding house that catered for theatricals

noun

Dramatic performances.

Usage examples:

I was persuaded to act in some amateur theatricals

adjective

Contrary to the ordinary course of nature; abnormal.

Usage examples:

Death by unnatural causes

adjective

Not found in nature; artificial

Usage examples:

Nothing unnatural or polluting can be used., the recordings have an unnatural sound.