posturing

Speech parts

1. posturing - Noun

2. posturing - Verb

Meaning

of Posture

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

bluff position show front approach display camp attitude fraud pose fake posture deception facade deceit
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Antonyms

controlled accuracy genuine authentic authenticity casual
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Hypernyms

vanity conceit conceitedness

Anagrams

outspring sprouting

Examples

The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld. Carl Bernstein

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. Hannah Arendt

All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty. Arthur Golden

...the importance of leadership and what it consists of: not lecturing and posturing and demanding, but demonstrating that your friends will be protected and taken care of, that your enemies will be punished, and that those who refuse to support you will regret having done so. Paul Wolfowitz

Mute in the clamour of shells he watched them burst Spouting dark earth and wire with gusts from hell, While posturing giants dissolved in drifts of smoke. Siegfried Sassoon

Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing. Somebody who claims to speak for the 'hood don't need no private jet. Chuck D

Close letter words and terms

posture-maker posture-master posturer posturingly posturise posturist