"false affection" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to love or friendship that is insincere or not genuine. For example, "She was only showing him false affection for the attention."
She says: "So many people used to bring me presents and shower me with false affection, and then one day there was absolute silence.
(At a Valentine's Day dance in Issue 12, Nakia, a hyper-woke teen, groans, "I can't believe I let you drag me to this patriarchal capitalist display of false affection").
"All these flowers, they are false offerings of affection.
Never lure your Yorkshire Terrier to you with a false promise of affection, then punish him for misbehavior.
In response to the first worry concerning the object of love, Whiting argues that Vlastos offers a false dichotomy: having disinterested affection for someone for her sake rather than my own essentially involves an appreciation of her excellences as such.
They said our troops would be greeted with flowers and affection, but that was false.
Great Expectations, with its central theme of snobbery and false values versus loyalty and ties of friendship and affection, is one of my favourites.
(McCain must be cast as Wickham, the rival for Elizabeth's affections, the engaging military scamp who casts false aspersions on Darcy's character).
"There are many reasons why people decided to use drugs for sex: It takes away inhibitions and gives a false sense of being wanted and loved; frequently gay men mistake intimacy and affection for sex," continues Dorota.
"There are many reasons why people decided to use drugs for sex: it takes away inhibitions and gives a false sense of being wanted and loved; frequently gay men mistake intimacy and affection for sex," continues Dorota.
Welcomed as an heiress, she is viewed with considerably less affection when it is discovered that her identity -- she has been presented as Miss Matilda Fitzgibbon -- is false and that no fees will be forthcoming.
