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posturing
adjective as in camp
Weak matches
noun as in acting
Strong matches
Weak matches
- play acting
- showing off
noun as in pose
noun as in pretense
Strong matches
- act
- acting
- affectation
- appearance
- artifice
- claim
- deceit
- deception
- display
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- evasion
- excuse
- fabrication
- facade
- fakery
- falsification
- feigning
- gag
- guise
- insincerity
- invention
- make believe
- mask
- masquerade
- misrepresentation
- misstatement
- ostentation
- posing
- pretentiousness
- routine
- ruse
- schtick
- sham
- shuffling
- simulation
- stall
- stunt
- subterfuge
- trickery
- veil
- wile
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Example Sentences
It was a new voice, and in contrast to the ham-handed posturing of “Officer Hernandez,” the threat was direct and more aggressive.
There was no acting, no posturing, as Ben delivered the news.
Luckily for them, the science runs directly against his thoughtless posturing about the importance of children.
But if you can sift through all of the legal posturing, a fairly accurate portrait of Sterling himself does begin to emerge.
But Sciortino cut her teeth in that world of excess irony, cynicism, and posturing.
Even if the whole school is obliged to attend the club-swinging and posturing and the other nonsense, little good is done.
The classical posturing which still lingered, a disturbing element, in the Plague picture, has been put aside 212 completely.
Remember that while you're posturing in your little hour of glory on Athena and Earth.
To exhibit it posturing, writhing, and gasping in mere hysteria is to lower it beneath the standard of wholesome and worthy art.
The sequel to this heroic posturing of the chief magistrate is one of the most humiliating chapters in American politics.
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On this page you'll find 143 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to posturing, such as: affected, arch, avant-garde, in, mod, and pop.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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