"to affect to" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express that someone is taking on a false or artificial behavior or attitude. For example: He affected to appear unconcerned when his boss criticized him in front of everyone.
Both segments etch faces, great time-worn faces, onto ideas that seek not to impress but to affect, to work.
What a shame that it has to affect to be one in order to get access to Lottery funding, to which I see no civilised reason that it should not be entitled.
My father, raised on a teeming Norwich council estate, always liked to believe – or to affect to believe – that his marriage to my mother involved a stratospheric leap up the mid-20th-century class ladder.
The medical stalls in African markets frequently sell tablets made of different sorts of clays, appropriate to different medical conditions.Africans brought to the Americas as slaves continued this tradition, which gave their owners one more excuse to affect to despise them.
I championed the writer's freedom — to create, to alter and amend, to collapse and expand, to ascribe meaning, to design, to perform, to affect, to choose a life, to experiment, and on and on — and quoted Henry James on the "immense increase" of that freedom, a "revelation," as he calls it, that anyone who has made a serious artistic attempt cannot help but become conscious of.
I championed the writer's freedom to create, to alter and amend, to collapse and expand, to ascribe meaning, to design, to perform, to affect, to choose a life, to experiment, and on and on and quoted Henry James on the "immense increase" of that freedom, a "revelation," as he calls it, that anyone who has made a serious artistic attempt cannot help but become conscious of.
It reduces the sacrifice which you affect to revere or the unimaginable suffering you affect to abhor to minuscule levels.
WRKY18, WRKY40, and WRKY60 showed to negatively affect resistance to hemibiotrophic pathogens50.
The woman advised those affected to speak to their travel agent.
Because they do have to believe it in order for them to be affected, to be frightened by it".
Up to 20% of adults in developed countries are reported to be affected to some degree by the ailment.
