Assumed or displayed artificially; put on for effect; artificial, stilted, ‘got up’.

Using affectation or pretentious style; = affected, adj.1 3.

Of action, speech, writing, etc.: characterized by vanity, pretentious affectation, or foppishness.

Of art, architecture, etc.: characterized by or given to mannerism; artificial, affected, or over-elaborate in style.

= manneristic, adj.

Mannered, characterized by mannerisms of behaviour, style, etc.; spec. characterized by Mannerism in art, architecture, etc.