NOUN
- a (usually irritating) impulsive and uncontrollable outburst by a problem child or a neurotic adult
- (psychiatry) the display of previously inhibited emotions (often in actions rather than words); considered to be healthy and therapeutic
How To Use acting out In A Sentence
- Parents can tell "if they're tearier than usual, acting out, less cooperative or less patient," Lecza said. Columnist: Keith Groller
- If they pay out upon cheques which are not his, they are acting outside their mandate and cannot plead his authority in justification of their debit to his account.
- Attackers bragged of acting out vile scenes they had watched. The Sun
- In acting out his anger against society, a terrorist is avenging himself for the raw deal he believes he has received at its hands.
- So good luck with that, Rupert. have a delightful, Howard-Hughesian dotage, acting out a crazed, Moby-Dick dumbshow against the Internet, hoping that the world's politics and economies will reform themselves to suit your fevered imaginings. Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp's websites out of Google, abolish fair use, tear heads off of adorable baby animals - Boing Boing
- I found myself acting out the role of good, brave patient.
- There is a fuzzy line between contracting out for services from industry, and simply enlisting industry in the cause.
- My last stepfather, upon catching me acting out the putrid stories, declared me crazy.
- Thankfully, his two advisors were kind-hearted: one gave the king a rifle filled with blanks, and the other dressed as a "peasant", acting out death throes when he was "shot".
- She was just acting out of common human decency. Times, Sunday Times