mannerism
noun
a habitual or characteristic manner, mode, or way of doing something; distinctive quality or style, as in behavior or speech.
manneristic
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a word derived from
mannerism.
Example Sentences
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What continually threatens Lucchesi's suspended animations is a manneristic overdose of whimsy.
From Time Magazine Archive
The time came, however, when the Scots acquired a school and style of their own, and all that can be pleaded for it is, that it is manneristic and peculiar.
From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by William Carew Hazlitt
Hysterical, garrulous, manneristic as he was, there was yet a truly epic sweep in certain passages of his History of France.
From Là-bas by Keene Wallace
We are sometimes told that certain manneristic ways are often a speaker's strength.
From Public Speaking by Irvah Lester Winter
Both Beccafumi and Peruzzi felt the cold and manneristic Roman style of rhetoric injuriously.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds
