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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of attitudinize.

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Examples

  • She attitudinized dramatically: '_Yes, in my first terror!

    CHAPTER 14 2010

  • He was soon landed by the stalwart Martha and Alec, and, while he attitudinized for draining, the Professor amused himself with taking an instantaneous photograph.

    Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

  • In his novels of this period, as in his dress and manner, he deliberately attitudinized, a fact which in part reflected a certain shallowness of character, in part was a device to attract attention for the sake of his political ambition.

    A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

  • There seems to me to be too much of the blown lock and the wistful glance, too much of the attitudinized poet, lacking, I may even say, in true refinement, often.

    Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley

  • One evening when Lilly arrived home from the hospital she found Zoe squatting in bed, her face naughtily screwed into a little grimalkin knot, elbows pressed into her sides, palms up, and all attitudinized to emulate a Chinese god.

    Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928

  • They attitudinized also, with a kind of childish poetry that did not quite convince, for the fountain rained on them, and some of them shivered as cold gouts of water smote their shoulder-blades.

    We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

  • Even small Frances, most self-conscious of Madigans, in a costume so inadequate that Bep's doll would have been scandalized at the idea of wearing it, posed and attitudinized as a Dewdrop.

    The Madigans Miriam Michelson 1906

  • There was nothing in the least melodramatic about him; he never posed or attitudinized -- it would have required too much patience; but he was always piquant.

    Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

  • He posed, attitudinized and vapored, so that the camp and the country were filled with stories of the wonderful coolness with which he contemplated his approaching fate.

    Andersonville John McElroy 1887

  • He posed, attitudinized and vapored, so that the camp and the country were filled with stories of the wonderful coolness with which he contemplated his approaching fate.

    Andersonville — Volume 3 John McElroy 1887

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