comportment

[ UK /kəmpˈɔːtmənt/ ]
[ US /kəmˈpɔɹtmənt/ ]
NOUN
  1. dignified manner or conduct
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How To Use comportment In A Sentence

  • Embarrassment concerns lighter social gaffes and violations of decorous comportment.
  • He had few friends, disdained tobacco and beer, was inevitably correct in comportment and dress, had a strong handshake and sincere blue eyes. “Samuel! There was a rolling wonder in the sound. Ay, there was!”
  • The voter does not express blind confidence in the future comportment of one of the candidates. He approves or disapproves of an already accomplished service.
  • It is essential to the success of the equestrianism, information exchange and communication can be effective in the comportment of rider and horse.
  • It is hard to think of people more demure in rhetorical comportment than senior envoys of the UN or the British Foreign Office.
  • His every attribute had seemed to accentuate his promise: his elegant comportment, his coolness under assault, the way he worked his audiences into a kind of rapture without getting carried away with himself, without shouting or surrendering his detachment. O: A Presidential Novel
  • It is hard to think of people more demure in rhetorical comportment than senior envoys of the United Nations or of the British foreign office.
  • Davis was compelled to answer questions about Knight's comportment and coaching methods.
  • Yet this form of intimate candor, while seemingly incommensurate with the comportment of a mature and accomplished artist, has deep roots in Western intellectual history.
  • Personal comportment often appears crass, loud, and effusive to people from other cultures, but Americans value emotional and bodily restraint.
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