If you refer to someone’s behaviour as ~, you are critical of it because it is very dramatic, exaggerated, and insincere.
Dorothea let out a ~ groan.
ADJ: usu ADJ n disapproval
If you refer to someone’s behaviour as ~, you are critical of it because it is very dramatic, exaggerated, and insincere.
Dorothea let out a ~ groan.
ADJ: usu ADJ n disapproval
Collins COBUILD. Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) . 2012