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Posturing   /pˈɑstʃərɪŋ/   Listen
Posturing

noun
1.
Adopting a vain conceited posture.





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"Posturing" Quotes from Famous Books



... tones of the deepest concern offered his opinion that said bridge was unsafe! The post-mortem man reverses this harmless blunder, and makes it anything but harmless by the change; as that one took theatricals to be earnest fact, so this conceives virtue itself to consist in posturing; he thinks gold a clever imitation of brass, and the azure of the sky to be a kind of celestial cosmetic; in fine, formalities are the realest things he knows. It is said, that, in the later days ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858 • Various


Words linked to "Posturing" :   conceit, conceitedness, vanity


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