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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When I went in it seemed to me that he was inclined to attitudinize in the orthodox pose of a statesman, and I felt that he was not himself.
From Forty Years of 'Spy' by Ward, Leslie
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
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 Warner, Charles Dudley
They never do anything that I can see, except attitudinize.
From The Jonathan Papers by Morris, Elisabeth Woodbridge
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 Locusts and Wild Honey by Burroughs, John
While two yellow-robed girls stood sentry-like at each side of the chancel, Miss Schirmer postured, gestured and attitudinized.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Hartley, Marsden
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
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
He received occasional assistance from his companions, who struck up choruses or attitudinized with mirthful effect.
From The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. by Weylland, John Matthias
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
They revenged themselves in their own way, mouthing and attitudinizing, caricaturing every pose which Miss Henrietta had been taught, by the instructor of Delsarte at Miss Jessup's, was grace.
From The Madigans by Lowell, Orson
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