Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The assumption of an exaggerated pose or attitude.
- n. The behaviour of some birds as a means of signalling etc.
- v. present participle of posture.
WordNet 3.0
- n. adopting a vain conceited posture
Examples
“Pham warns that if world powers like the United States do not move beyond what he calls posturing, and just wanting Mr. Ouattara to be installed as president, to helping find a more sustainable settlement, he warns the result could be heightened violence and eventually the breakup of Ivory Coast.”
Voice of America: US Stance on Ivory Coast Gets Mixed Reviews
“In the second week since the Wall Street crash, [ "Black Monday," October 19, 1987] this posturing is all-pervasive.”
Brimelow On The Bailout, The Patriot Party, And The ‘87 Crash
“Lud - Thats a very good point IMHO the Mail and the DT have both been very soft on Brown for these reasons but in fact the posturing is all fraud.”
“I've always said (to myself, of course) that the day some critics begin to drop the posturing is the day I would be happy to do so likewise.”
“This hearing is about posturing from the right and the left.”
Senators signal fierce ideological debate in Sotomayor hearings
“There's going to be a lot of yelling and posturing from the right and nothing is going to get done.”
The Huffington Post: Stu Kreisman: A Letter From a Progressive to President Obama
“Unfortunately, probably Secretary Rumsfeld would throw a snowball at me, if I did, because right now we're in the process of thinking our way through exactly what should our longer - term posturing and positioning be in Central Asia.”
“Though he expressed some reservations about how politics might play into commissioners 'decisions - some of their comments, he said, sounded like "posturing" - Sisolak said commissioners' positions will be largely determined by the enormity of the budget shortfall they are about to face.”
“This sterile moral posturing, which is not only useless but humiliating, has made America's liberal class an object of public derision.”
“To argue that Obama's mailer was true does not really prove that the debate about NAFTA is anything more than cheap posturing, which is, if I understand it, Another_reader's real complaint.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘posturing’.
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GRE
predilection, explicit, appeal, supplication, appealing, enchanting, ovation, pertinent, apropos, opportunely, applicable, germane and 381 more...
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My Revised GRE Preparation List
Words from the new GRE : This list consists mostly of words from the book Magoosh-GRE-vocab-ebook, which is one of the best vocab materials available, especially if you have started preparing one ...
alacrity, prosaic, veracity, paucity, contrite, trite, maintain, laconic, pugnacious, disparate, egregious, innocuous and 533 more...
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Magooosh
impugn, repudiate, sardonic, barnstorm, bemoan, unseemly, cornerstone, noisome, malodorous, retroactively, spuriously, spasmodically and 217 more...
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GRE Words
deftness, insular, patent, normative, abrasive, immutable, inscrutable, invulnerable, imperturbable, irresolute, injudicious, deft and 106 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate, amalgam and 1781 more...
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Watchmen (2009)
Words from 2009 'Watchmen' film.
adversary, certitude, deterrent, stockpile, posturing, minuteman, vigilante, toss, flip, spook, carcass, tread and 174 more...
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words people have complained about me...
hey, i can't help that i have a large... vocabulary!
lucid, inebriated, antithesis, saccharine, exacerbate, cathartic, omniscient, psychosomatic, posturing, facetious, capricious, fallacious and 1 more...
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Katnguyen's Words
amenable, cornicopia, truthiness, collaborative, buzzword, nexus, zenith, apex, nondenominational, omnipotent, omniscient, sinecure and 37 more...
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Poetrie: The Book of My Enemy Has Bee...
by Clive James
The book of my enemy has been remaindered
And I am pleased.
In vast quantities it has been remaindered
Like a van-load of counterfeit that has been sei...glad, crystal goblets, champagne, sweet moment, offset, sadness, slight element, merit, marketing error, miscalculated pri..., meted out, chastisement of r... and 59 more...
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Words from Great Expectations
Just basically a few words I stumbled upon while reading Great Expectations. It is full of words long-since unused, you see. Also my vocabulary is about the size of a walnut. This starts from page ...
pugilistic, capricious, handsomely, sublime, exultant, virtuous, clemency, audacious, remunerate, collation, flaccid, affable and 19 more...
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fun to bandy about
incongruous, fossick, innuendo, ennui, bloviate, brobdingnagian, botch, vamoose, quibble, foible, insouciant, smirk and 65 more...
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Brain Freeze
prescient, epithet, ostensible, tangential, benighted, ontological, posturing
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