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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of attitudinise.

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Examples

  • The elegant Sparkins attitudinised with admirable effect, until the family had crossed the room.

    Sketches by Boz 2007

  • The signing and so forth were completed; the prisoner, unbound, stood between two watchful guards, who attitudinised as though ready to pounce and grapple him upon the least movement.

    Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902

  • When he rent chains, and poised prodigious weights above his head, she thrilled at his prowess, but the next time he attitudinised in the tiger-skin she turned up her nose.

    A Chair on the Boulevard Leonard Merrick 1901

  • Tres hyemes quater attigerat, and the whole history of the martyrdom is attitudinised and bedizened in the same fashion.

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

  • It used to be my ambition to be described as a "tall, slim girl," and now I turned, and twisted, and attitudinised before that glass, and, honestly, that was just exactly what I looked!

    The Heart of Una Sackville George de Horne Vaizey 1887

  • Now he pirouetted like Paul, and now he attitudinised like Albert; and now Miss Fane eclipsed all his exertions by her inimitable imitations of Ronzi

    Vivian Grey Benjamin Disraeli 1842

  • The elegant Sparkins attitudinised with admirable effect, until the family had crossed the room.

    Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841

  • Yet the repeated soprano riff, the electronica, the discord and assumed assurance all betray a sound of the insecure, the attitudinised and the vulnerable, the persona of power stuffed with emptiness.

    Palestine Blogs aggregator 2008

  • Yet the repeated soprano riff, the electronica, the discord and assumed assurance all betray a sound of the insecure, the attitudinised and the vulnerable, the persona of power stuffed with emptiness.

    Palestine Blogs aggregator 2008

  • Yet the repeated soprano riff, the electronica, the discord and assumed assurance all betray a sound of the insecure, the attitudinised and the vulnerable, the persona of power stuffed with emptiness.

    Palestine Blogs aggregator 2008

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