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US
/pɔɹˈtɹeɪd/
]
[ UK /pɔːtɹˈeɪd/ ]
[ UK /pɔːtɹˈeɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- represented graphically by sketch or design or lines
How To Use portrayed In A Sentence
- Open source software is often portrayed as a breakthrough in the free and open exchange of intellectual property, without precedent in the prevailing global capitalist mentality.
- Virtually all of the clergy are portrayed as venal and conspiratorial.
- In 1975 he portrayed the king in a Los Angeles revival of "Camelot".
- Rangers should be relieved but the country as a whole should be mortified to be portrayed in this way.
- But his infamy was sealed by the government's all-out campaign against his hapless sidekicks, falsely portrayed as part of a vast Confederate plot.
- Kelly is portrayed as a slow witted young man, with a strong sense of injustice, who feels uncomfortable in the role of gunslinger.
- It was certainly entertaining and one could not help but feel sorry for him for being involved with such a grasping, shallow woman of the sort portrayed here!
- In the ensuing litigation, this was portrayed as blackmail - a serious offence that has a maximum prison term of 14 years.
- The tradition of the picturesque dates back to paintings and depictions from centuries earlier, which portrayed peasants and farmers as happy, apple-cheeked characters working in harmony with the land.
- She reminds us that French revolutionary leaders were often portrayed as wild beasts or savage tigers by critics at the time and that the tiger in the poem is located in a nightmarish industrial landscape.