attitudinize

especially British, at·ti·tu·di·nise

[at-i-tood-n-ahyz, -tyood-]

verb (used without object)

attitudinized, attitudinizing 

1. to assume attitudes; pose for effect.

attitudinize

/ ˌætɪˈtjuːdɪˌnaɪz /

verb

1. (intr) to adopt a pose or opinion for effect; strike an attitude

Other Word Forms

• attitudinizer noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of attitudinize¹

1775–85; attitudin- ( attitudinarian ) + -ize

Example Sentences

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.

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How any “attitudinizing” crept into her performances was hard to fathom, given the authenticity she brought to her artistry at her best.

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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.

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Fascism also arrived in the form of apparent buffoons: Adolf Hitler, shabby and sullen, and Benito Mussolini, whose almost desperate displays of masculinity struck many non-Italians, including one foreign journalist, as “absurd attitudinizing.”

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But those two pieces, each insubstantial while laden with surface attitudinizing, occurred before the intermission.

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