actorish
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of actorish
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Despite the added tension, the series is made with a dedication to keeping things from getting too sensational, too declamatory, too actorish.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2022
It’s a risky thing to give a performance that you know some people will dismiss as mannered or arch or artificial or, worst of all, actorish.
From Slate • Jan. 6, 2016
At times, March seems to take an actorish delight in playing the Lord, but he is awesome when, with magnetic all-seeing eyes, he probes for Gideon's soul in a speck of human dust.
From Time Magazine Archive
The main trouble with the picture is the perhaps inevitable one that the characters are so actorish and attitudinous that they come to seem phony, and their problems unreal.
From Time Magazine Archive
Green, a suavely tough little septuagenarian, has an imposing reputation among his peers, who admire his stagecraft—a repertoire of actorish gifts that includes a sense of timing acute as a night-club comedian’s.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
