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Webster 1913 Edition
Attitudinize
Atˊti-tu′di-nize
,Verb.
I.
To assume affected attitudes; to strike an attitude; to pose.
Maria, who is the most picturesque figure, was put to
attitudinize
at the harp. Hannah More.
Definition 2024
attitudinize
attitudinize
English
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Verb
attitudinize (third-person singular simple present attitudinizes, present participle attitudinizing, simple past and past participle attitudinized)
- (intransitive) To assume an affected, unnatural exaggerated attitude or pose.
- 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin 2010, p. 125:
- ‘That mean anything to you, Mrs Wade?’
- ‘Just attitudinizing. He has always been a great admirer of Scott Fitzgerald.’
- 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin 2010, p. 125: