See attitudinize on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1901, Joseph Conrad, Ford M. Hueffer [i.e., Ford Madox Ford], chapter 11, in The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 178:",
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"ref": "1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XIX, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 183:",
"text": "I was the only one of our party who saw this grand sight; the others were attitudinizing, for the benefit of the long rank of young ladies who were promenading on the bank, and so they lost it.",
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},
{
"ref": "1901, Joseph Conrad, Ford M. Hueffer [i.e., Ford Madox Ford], chapter 11, in The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 178:",
"text": "Radet was a cadaverous, weather-worn, passion-worn individual, badger-grey, and worked up into a grotesquely attitudinised fury of injured self-esteem",
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}
],
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"To assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to posture, to posturize; also, to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses."
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"(intransitive)",
"To assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to posture, to posturize; also, to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses."
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{
"ref": "1871 December, Robert Browning, Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society, London: Smith, Elder and Co., →OCLC, page 124:",
"text": "[W]hoso rhymes a sonnet pays a tax, / Who paints a landscape dips brush at his cost, / Who scores a septett true for strings and wind / Mulcted must be—else how should I impose / Properly, attitudinize aright, / Did such conflicting claims as these divert / Hohenstiel-Schwangau from observing me?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1879, James Anthony Froude, chapter XIV, in Cæsar: A Sketch, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 194:",
"text": "In every line that he wrote Cicero was attitudinising for posterity, or reflecting on the effect of his conduct upon his interests or his reputation.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1953, Raymond Chandler, chapter 14, in The Long Goodbye, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], published 1954, →OCLC, page 89:",
"text": "There was a short typewritten paragraph on it, no more. It read, \"I do not care to be in love with myself and there is no longer anyone else for me to be in love with. Signed: Roger (F. Scott Fitzgerald) Wade. P.S. This is why I never finished The Last Tycoon.\" / \"That mean anything to you, Mrs. Wade?\" / \"Just attitudinizing. He has always been a great admirer of Scott Fitzgerald.[…]\"",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"To create art, speak, or write in a manner which assumes affected, exaggerated, or unnatural attitudes."
],
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[
"write",
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],
[
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"(intransitive)",
"(figurative) To create art, speak, or write in a manner which assumes affected, exaggerated, or unnatural attitudes."
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"General-American"
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},
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"synonyms": [
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"english": "non-Oxford British English",
"word": "attitudinise"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to give the appearance of, or make a show of (something) by assuming an affected or exaggerated attitude",
"word": "tekeytyä"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to give the appearance of, or make a show of (something) by assuming an affected or exaggerated attitude",
"word": "inszenieren"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to give the appearance of, or make a show of (something) by assuming an affected or exaggerated attitude",
"word": "spielen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to give the appearance of, or make a show of (something) by assuming an affected or exaggerated attitude",
"word": "vorgaukeln"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to give the appearance of, or make a show of (something) by assuming an affected or exaggerated attitude",
"word": "vormachen"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses — see also posture, posturize",
"word": "作勢"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zuòshì",
"sense": "to assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses — see also posture, posturize",
"word": "作势"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses — see also posture, posturize",
"tags": [
"reflexive"
],
"word": "aanstellen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses — see also posture, posturize",
"word": "olla olevinaan ..."
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses — see also posture, posturize",
"word": "tekeytyä"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses — see also posture, posturize",
"tags": [
"reflexive"
],
"word": "in Pose werfen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses — see also posture, posturize",
"word": "posieren"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses — see also posture, posturize",
"word": "so tun als ob"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses — see also posture, posturize",
"word": "face nazuri"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to create art, speak, or write in a manner which assumes affected, exaggerated, or unnatural attitudes",
"word": "olla olevinaan ..."
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to create art, speak, or write in a manner which assumes affected, exaggerated, or unnatural attitudes",
"word": "tekeytyä"
}
],
"word": "attitudinize"
}
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