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Definition of attitudinize in English: attitudinize(British attitudinise) verb ˌatɪˈtjuːdɪnʌɪzˌædəˈt(j)udnˌaɪz [no object]Adopt or express a particular attitude or attitudes, typically just for effect. her column is an exercise in smug attitudinizing Example sentencesExamples - He loved to strike poses, to attitudinize, and in these last years allowed his imagination to run riot.
- Her plays have been eccentric, attitudinizing, overambitious.
- Two readers have separately directed us to a column in today's New York Times, an utterly worthless piece of pseudo-sophisticated attitudinizing.
- First, there is a strong attitudinizing on the part of rappers in France.
- Larry Pine is an attitudinizing actor relying overmuch on a charm he doesn't quite have.
- This attitudinising was part of a generation who were quite sincere and ‘objectively’ correct, yet were somewhat out of touch with the realities of the people.
- When it was first shown, their work seemed to represent a new low in superficiality and attitudinizing.
- Even now my friends in the North would be preparing work, talking and arguing and attitudinizing, while I went unsteadily on by myself.
- Instead of attitudinizing for the cameras, he would rather sit in a dark room listening to the strategic counsel of his old buddy.
- They were brave because they resisted formula and eschewed attitudinising.
- The play attitudinizes, pontificates, mystifies, and bores.
- It is very easy for us in the media to attitudinise because we have always got the escape hatch of saying, well it is not our job to prescribe.
- It deserves an appropriately respectful and thoughtful response that goes beyond attitudinising.
- Miró stood apart from the other members of the movement in the variety, geniality, and lack of attitudinizing in his work.
- That Helen had not been happy in her marriage to Menelaus is revealed not only by what she says, but also by the male chauvinistic and over-bearing attitudinising of Menelaus when he meets her.
- While most of the other panelists attitudinized, he got down to brass tacks.
- The column is an exercise in smug attitudinizing that makes clear its writer thinks slightly higher of himself than the evidence warrants.
- It contains a certain amount of typical French pseudo-psychological attitudinising.
Synonyms make-believe, act, putting on an act, acting, dissembling, shamming, sham, faking, feigning, simulation, falsification, dissimulation, invention, imagination, self-deception, play-acting, posturing, posture, posing, pose, cant, attitudinizing
Derivatives noun For so Christian an attitudiniser, he has a strikingly weak sense of sin as a force in human affairs.
Origin Late 16th century: from Italian attitudine (see attitude) + -ize. Definition of attitudinize in US English: attitudinize(British attitudinise) verbˌadəˈt(y)o͞odnˌīzˌædəˈt(j)udnˌaɪz [no object]Adopt or express a particular attitude or attitudes, typically just for effect. her column is an exercise in smug attitudinizing Example sentencesExamples - Instead of attitudinizing for the cameras, he would rather sit in a dark room listening to the strategic counsel of his old buddy.
- Larry Pine is an attitudinizing actor relying overmuch on a charm he doesn't quite have.
- While most of the other panelists attitudinized, he got down to brass tacks.
- Her plays have been eccentric, attitudinizing, overambitious.
- That Helen had not been happy in her marriage to Menelaus is revealed not only by what she says, but also by the male chauvinistic and over-bearing attitudinising of Menelaus when he meets her.
- When it was first shown, their work seemed to represent a new low in superficiality and attitudinizing.
- This attitudinising was part of a generation who were quite sincere and ‘objectively’ correct, yet were somewhat out of touch with the realities of the people.
- The play attitudinizes, pontificates, mystifies, and bores.
- It contains a certain amount of typical French pseudo-psychological attitudinising.
- They were brave because they resisted formula and eschewed attitudinising.
- It is very easy for us in the media to attitudinise because we have always got the escape hatch of saying, well it is not our job to prescribe.
- Two readers have separately directed us to a column in today's New York Times, an utterly worthless piece of pseudo-sophisticated attitudinizing.
- Even now my friends in the North would be preparing work, talking and arguing and attitudinizing, while I went unsteadily on by myself.
- He loved to strike poses, to attitudinize, and in these last years allowed his imagination to run riot.
- It deserves an appropriately respectful and thoughtful response that goes beyond attitudinising.
- Miró stood apart from the other members of the movement in the variety, geniality, and lack of attitudinizing in his work.
- The column is an exercise in smug attitudinizing that makes clear its writer thinks slightly higher of himself than the evidence warrants.
- First, there is a strong attitudinizing on the part of rappers in France.
Synonyms make-believe, act, putting on an act, acting, dissembling, shamming, sham, faking, feigning, simulation, falsification, dissimulation, invention, imagination, self-deception, play-acting, posturing, posture, posing, pose, cant, attitudinizing
Origin Late 16th century: from Italian attitudine (see attitude) + -ize. |