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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
Example Sentences
Such posturing would once have caused serious concern in the West.
But she said her row with the Treasury over the time it was taking to issue compensation last August was not just a case of her "posturing".
Trump’s hypermasculine posturing and bullying behavior is merely an exaggerated version of a dynamic that was there all along.
After defending a triangle choke attempt, Ngannou took control, posturing up and launching a series of ground strikes down on a helpless Ferreira.
It’s also one he isn’t ready to answer, because for all his liberal posturing, he still can’t quite accept his fiancée’s bodily autonomy.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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