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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He was compelled the while to attitudinize incessantly as a genius.
From Art in England Notes and Studies by Cook, Dutton
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 — Volume 5 by Meredith, George
She was very corseted, very mannered, and quick to attitudinize.
From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie
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
While two yellow-robed girls stood sentry-like at each side of the chancel, Miss Schirmer postured, gestured and attitudinized.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
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
Goethe knew he was drawing his portrait, and attitudinized accordingly.
From Hyperion by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
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
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
He has been too busy with his work to think of any attitudinizing or trick in doing it.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various
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