attitudinize
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of attitudinize
1775–85; attitudin- ( see attitudinarian) + -ize
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The passing of Lola sent a quiver through them and they were ready for the first available opportunity to attitudinize about her chair.
From The Rustle of Silk by Cosmo Hamilton
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 George Meredith
They never do anything that I can see, except attitudinize.
From The Jonathan Papers by Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris
A jay would alight in the entrance of the hole, and flirt and peer and attitudinize, and then fly away crying "Thief, thief, thief," at the top of his voice.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Charles Dudley Warner
The cause requires a youth to "stalk, and bustle, and attitudinize;" and he clearly thinks this is all the youth before him wants to do, whether conscious of the fact or not.
From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Mrs. Sutherland Orr
While two yellow-robed girls stood sentry-like at each side of the chancel, Miss Schirmer postured, gestured and attitudinized.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was soon landed by the stalwart Martha and Alec, and, while he attitudinized for draining, the Professor amused himself with taking an instantaneous photograph.
From Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 by Various
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 Henry Labouchere
Goethe knew he was drawing his portrait, and attitudinized accordingly.
From Hyperion by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There seems to me to be too much of the blown lock and the wistful glance, too much of the attitudinized poet, lacking, I may even say, in true refinement, often.
From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley
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
“All we get is fatuous attitudinizing about how ambition, success and money always lead to rack and ruin,” Mr. Rich wrote.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2012
Wars in Liberia, Nigeria, Afghanistan and Libya — the world's open wounds — were vocation destinations for this English photojournalist, whose pictures had the impact of stark truth stripped of political attitudinizing.
From Time ● Apr. 21, 2011
I am to stay here, attitudinizing among my memories like a sort of female Tithonus.
From The Greater Inclination by Edith Wharton
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