semi-affected

Updated: June 21, 2025

So don't you be too hard upon us, for God won't think the more of you for being strict." And as he thus talked to me in his slow and kindly, but semi-affected, fashion bespattering me, as it were, with wordy sawdust I would suddenly grow blind of an eye and silently show him the corrected figure. "That's it that's right.

Maksim Gorky - Through Russia