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attitudinize

VERB
  1. assume certain affected attitudes

How To Use attitudinize In A Sentence

  • Here and there a more or less circular space has been swept clear, and on each space a batch of skaters whirl and attitudinize, the uncleared interspaces of snow-covered, impracticable ice given up to miscellaneous loafers. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
  • She was very corseted, very mannered, and quick to attitudinize. Star-Dust
  • They attitudinized also, with a kind of childish poetry that did not quite convince, for the fountain rained on them, and some of them shivered as cold gouts of water smote their shoulder-blades. We Can't Have Everything
  • It made them think that bounders and attitudinizers could never get the better of them.
  • There seems to me to be too much of the blown lock and the wistful glance, too much of the attitudinized poet, lacking, I may even say, in true refinement, often. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
  • While most of the other panelists attitudinized, he got down to brass tacks.
  • The play attitudinizes, pontificates, mystifies, and bores.
  • In the same church I had the misfortune to see in the boxes a pair of horrible mummies, decked off with robes and ornaments -- a count of Nassau-Saarwerden and his daughter, according to the custodian -- an unhappy pair who, having escaped our common doom of corruption by some physical aridity or meagreness, have been compelled to leave their tombs and attitudinize as works of art. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873
  • They vilified him with passion and charged him with being a shallow attitudinizer.
  • I have periodically been charged with being an attitudinizer ever since I began writing criticism twenty years ago.
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