attitudinize
动词 v.
英 /ˌætɪˈtjuːdɪnaɪz/
美 /ˌætəˈtud(ɪ)nˌaɪz/|[-ɾə-]
英文释义
动词 v.
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To cause (someone or something) to assume an attitude or pose; to pose, to posture.
— In Greenwich, there were many gravelled walks, unshrubbed except for the nurses who dotted them, silent and attitudinized as trees.
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To give the appearance of, or make a show of, (something) by assuming an affected or exaggerated attitude.
— While she, one hand on his arm, had been attitudinizing her dutiful gratitude, he—as she suddenly realized—had been deciding to rid her of Fordham [her estate manager]. No sentimentalizing, no attitudinizing there!
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To assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to posture, to posturize; also, to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses.
— He had a great averſion to geſticulating in company. He called once to a gentleman vvho offended him in that point, "Don't attitudeniſe."
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To create art, speak, or write in a manner which assumes affected, exaggerated, or unnatural attitudes.
— [W]hoso rhymes a sonnet pays a tax, / Who paints a landscape dips brush at his cost, / Who scores a septett true for strings and wind / Mulcted must be—else how should I impose / Properly, attitudinize aright, / Did such conflicting claims as these divert / Hohenstiel-Schwangau from observing me?
词汇关系
词源
From Italian attitudine + -ize, from Latin aptitūdin- + -ize, from oblique stem of Latin aptitūdō, from aptus + -tūdō. By surface analysis, attitude + -ize.
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