attitudinize

American  

[at-i-tood-n-ahyz, -tyood-] / ˌæt ɪˈtud nˌaɪz, -ˈtjud- /

especially British, attitudinise

verb (used without object)

attitudinized, attitudinizing

1. to assume attitudes; pose for effect.

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attitudinize British  

/ ˌætɪˈtjuːdɪˌnaɪz /

verb

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

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Other Word Forms

• attitudinizer
  noun

Etymology

Origin of attitudinize

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

Example Sentences

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attitudinize attitudinized attitudinizing

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

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

They never do anything that I can see, except attitudinize.

From The Jonathan Papers by Morris, Elisabeth Woodbridge

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

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 Hamilton, Cosmo

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 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

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

Goethe knew he was drawing his portrait, and attitudinized accordingly.

From Hyperion by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

But the surprise of “Randy Newman’s Faust” was how consistently the songs revealed the sincere feeling beneath Mr. Newman’s wiseguy attitudinizing.

From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2014

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

For all their philosophic airs and their attitudinizing, I know nobody who thinks less than a hen, or, at all events, their thinking is contemplative rather than practical.

From The Jonathan Papers by Morris, Elisabeth Woodbridge