affectation, cast, euphuism, form of speech, impress, manneredness, overelegance, property, sense of language, stylistics, unnaturalness
Definitionn. a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual
Last update: August 19, 2015
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The elaborate treatment of the drapery enveloping these female figures suggests an approach to the mannerism of later times; this and other indications point to the probability that the balustrade was added in the latter years of the Peloponnesian War. [Please select]
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"Alfred's a sort of distant cousin," she said with a lisp, affecting a mannerism of the shoulders. [Please select]
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A player should be most careful not to indicate by some mannerism that his hand is trickless. [Please select]
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He has been accused of late years of falling into a mannerism, and I think there is some truth in the charge. [Please select]
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His mannerism is a legitimate device for diverting the spectator's attention from certain incongruities. [Please select]
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The result is a mannerism that in the end ceases to impress, and even becomes disagreeable. [Please select]
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His clothes, his bearing, his every little mannerism, were carefully studied. [Please select]
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If one of the company had a trick or a mannerism, I never failed to catch it. [Please select]
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At home Phil had stood only for loose habit, daring fad, and flaunting mannerism--milestones of a career as completely dissolute as a consistent disregard of conventional moral thoroughfares could well make it. [Please select]
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She learned with difficulty, like a Bourbon; but many years' experience had at last convinced her that her daughter's occasional mocking mannerism had to be put up with. [Please select]
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