Pretentious, designed to impress (8)

I believe the answer is:

affected

(Other definitions for affected that I've seen before include "Pretended; artificial" , "Influenced; pretentious" , "Not natural" , "False - unnatural" , "La-di-da" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times (Simplex) and The Irish Times.

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