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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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
He was compelled the while to attitudinize incessantly as a genius.
From Art in England Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook
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 John Burroughs
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 Leslie Ward
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 Clara Barrus
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
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 Louisa May Alcott
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 John Matthias Weylland
Turning and smiling over her shoulder, she bent and swayed and attitudinized.
From Maida's Little Shop by Inez Haynes Gillmore
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
New musicals on Broadway today are mostly audience-pleasing machines manufactured from cultural spare parts: a movie screenplay, a rock songbook, the self-conscious attitudinizing of late-night comedy.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2011
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
Whereas here, these men in their tight-fitting and uncomfortable uniforms, were attitudinizing and indulging in that military form of gallantry, which may be picturesque but certainly looks most uncomfortable.
From L.P.M. : the end of the Great War by J. Stewart (John Stewart) Barney
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