粵

矯giu2情cing4

simp矫情
giu2 cing4jiáo qingjiǎo qíng

English

  1. (Beijing dialect) argumentative; unreasonable
  2. affected
  3. unnatural
  4. pretentious
  5. (of behaviour, facial expression, tone, manner, etc) affected; artificial, unnatural; mimic

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 做作

Examples

  • 佢係個矯情嘅人,成日扮高尚。

    He always acts unnaturally to pretend he is high class.

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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