attitudinize
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of attitudinize
1775–85; attitudin- ( see attitudinarian) + -ize
Example Sentences
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She was very corseted, very mannered, and quick to attitudinize.
From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie
A bird seldom sings when watched, and Nature is no coquette, and will not ogle and attitudinize when stared at.
From Our Friend John Burroughs by Barrus, Clara
To be a "conteur," to figure in "proverbs," to attitudinize, to produce a "sensation"—all these are purposes of ambition in foreign circles.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various
One of the rare women who never pout or attitudinize, she could fling her glove gracefully— one might add, capturingly under every aspect, she was a handsome belligerent.
From The Amazing Marriage — Volume 5 by Meredith, George
One of the rare women who never pout or attitudinize, she could fling her glove gracefully—one might add, capturingly under every aspect, she was a handsome belligerent.
From The Amazing Marriage — Complete by Meredith, George
While two yellow-robed girls stood sentry-like at each side of the chancel, Miss Schirmer postured, gestured and attitudinized.
From Time Magazine Archive
While the bombardment was going on at Avron he exposed himself freely to the fire, but instead of superintending the operations he attitudinized and made speeches.
From Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Labouchere, Henry
He was a languid, good-looking youth of three-and-twenty, who assumed blasé airs and attitudinized for their benefit.
From Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag by Alcott, Louisa May
Fountains that tossed up coloratura bubbles of sheerest aria and a sort of Greek frieze of youth attitudinized toward herself.
From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie
They attitudinized also, with a kind of childish poetry that did not quite convince, for the fountain rained on them, and some of them shivered as cold gouts of water smote their shoulder-blades.
From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert
With deft tonal shifts and acrobatic attitudinizing, Pinchot charges in at a pace rather fast for audiobook narration, but perfectly matching Kidd’s hyperkinetic prose.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2022
Dixon’s direction of the white actors’ performances exposes the dual meaning of the term “bad actors”: the officials’ fat-cat presumptions and facile attitudinizing are mocked in the characters’ exaggerated B-movie cadences.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 20, 2018
The play sustains this tongue-in-cheek attitudinizing almost until the end.
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2012
It's not a Jerry Bruckheimer action-adventure movie but a European art-house film, with its emphasis on attitudinizing, sullen tempers and long takes of people scurrying to get nowhere.
From Time ● Jul. 10, 2010
One might well excuse Walpole if he became sometimes a little impatient of the attitudinizing and the vaporing of the Patriots.
From A History of the Four Georges, Volume II by McCarthy, Justin
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