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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
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".
He said this could be seen as "soft power" or "posturing".
Trump’s hypermasculine posturing and bullying behavior is merely an exaggerated version of a dynamic that was there all along.
But this Big Daddy posturing was his central theme.
After defending a triangle choke attempt, Ngannou took control, posturing up and launching a series of ground strikes down on a helpless Ferreira.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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