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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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
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
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
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
He was compelled the while to attitudinize incessantly as a genius.
From Art in England Notes and Studies by Cook, Dutton
While two yellow-robed girls stood sentry-like at each side of the chancel, Miss Schirmer postured, gestured and attitudinized.
From Time Magazine Archive
Goethe knew he was drawing his portrait, and attitudinized accordingly.
From Hyperion by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
So Charlie attitudinized unnoticed and was getting rather out of temper when Phebe began to sing, and he forgot all about himself in admiration of her.
From Rose in Bloom by Alcott, Louisa May
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
Turning and smiling over her shoulder, she bent and swayed and attitudinized.
From Maida's Little Shop by Gillmore, Inez Haynes
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
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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