Exact Match:
- posturing
- adopting a vain conceited posture
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
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- affectation
collapse - a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display related words >
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- Gongorism,
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- activity,
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- hyperelegance,
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- pose
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- a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes
- pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter"
- behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others; "Don't pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!"; "She postured and made a total fool of herself" related words >
- act,
- acting,
- action,
- actions,
- activity,
- acts,
- address,
- advance,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- air,
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- appearance,
- arrange,
- ask,
- assert,
- attitude,
- attitudinarianism,
- attitudinize,
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- bearing,
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- behavioral science,
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- false show,
- falsity,
- feign,
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