#855.  Affectation. —­ N. affectation; affectedness &c. adj.; acting a
part &c. v.; pretense &c. (falsehood) 544, (ostentation) 882; boasting &c. 884.
     charlatanism, quackery, shallow profundity; pretension, airs,
pedantry, purism, precisianism, euphuism; teratology &c. (altiloquence) 577.
     mannerism, simagree, grimace.
     conceit, foppery, dandyism, man millinery, coxcombry, puppyism.
     stiffness, formality, buckram; prudery, demureness, coquetry, mock
modesty, minauderie, sentimentalism; mauvais honte, false shame.
     affector, performer, actor; pedant, pedagogue, doctrinaire, purist,
euphuist, mannerist; grimacier; lump of affectation, precieuse ridicule[Fr], bas bleu[Fr], blue stocking, poetaster; prig; charlatan &c. (deceiver) 548; petit maitre &c. (fop) 854; flatterer &c. 935; coquette, prude, puritan. 
     V. affect, act a part, put on; give oneself airs &c. (arrogance) 885;
boast &c. 884; coquet; simper, mince, attitudinize, pose; flirt a fan; overact, overdo. 
     Adj. affected, full of affectation, pretentious, pedantic, stilted,
stagy, theatrical, big-sounding, ad captandum; canting, insincere.
     not natural, unnatural; self-conscious; maniere; artificial;
overwrought, overdone, overacted; euphuist &c. 577.
     stiff, starch, formal, prim, smug, demure, tire a quatre epingles,
quakerish, puritanical, prudish, pragmatical, priggish, conceited, coxcomical, foppish, dandified; finical, finikin; mincing, simpering, namby-pamby, sentimental. 
     Phr. “conceit in weakest bodies strongest works” [Hamlet].

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     #856.  Ridicule. —­ N. ridicule, derision; sardonic smile, sardonic
grin; irrision[obs3]; scoffing &c. (disrespect) 929; mockery, quiz|!, banter, irony, persiflage, raillery, chaff, badinage; quizzing &c. v.; asteism[obs3].
     squib, satire, skit, quip, quib[obs3], grin.
     parody, burlesque, travesty, travestie[obs3]; farce &c. (drama) 599;
caricature.
     buffoonery &c. (fun) 840; practical joke; horseplay.
     scorn, contempt &c. 930. 
     V. ridicule[transitive], deride, mock, taunt; snigger; laugh in
one’s sleeve; tease[ridicule lightly], badinage, banter, rally, chaff, joke, twit, quiz, roast; haze [U.S.]; tehee[obs3]; fleer[obs3]; show up.
     [i.p.] play upon, play tricks upon; fool to the top of one’s bent;
laugh at, grin at, smile at; poke fun at.
     satirize, parody, caricature, burlesque, travesty.
     turn into ridicule; make merry with; make fun of, make game of, make a
fool of, make an April fool of[obs3]; rally; scoff &c. (disrespect) 929.
     raise a laugh &c. (amuse) 840; play the fool, make a fool of oneself. 
     Adj. derisory, derisive; mock, mocking; sarcastic, ironic, ironical,
quizzical, burlesque, Hudibrastic[obs3]; scurrilous &c. (disrespectful) 929. 
     Adv. in ridicule &c. n.