attitudinize

[ at-i-tood-n-ahyz, -tyood- ]

verb (used without object)

, at·ti·tu·di·nized, at·ti·tu·di·niz·ing.

1. to assume attitudes; pose for effect.

attitudinize

/ ˌætɪˈtjuːdɪˌnaɪz /

verb

1. intr to adopt a pose or opinion for effect; strike an attitude

Derived Forms

• ˌattiˈtudiˌnizer, noun

Other Words From

• atti·tudi·nizer noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of attitudinize¹

1775–85; attitudin- ( attitudinarian ) + -ize

Example Sentences

How any “attitudinizing” crept into her performances was hard to fathom, given the authenticity she brought to her artistry at her best.

From New York Times

Dixon’s direction of the white actors’ performances exposes the dual meaning of the term “bad actors”: the officials’ fat-cat presumptions and facile attitudinizing are mocked in the characters’ exaggerated B-movie cadences.

From The New Yorker

Fascism also arrived in the form of apparent buffoons: Adolf Hitler, shabby and sullen, and Benito Mussolini, whose almost desperate displays of masculinity struck many non-Italians, including one foreign journalist, as “absurd attitudinizing.”

From Washington Post

But those two pieces, each insubstantial while laden with surface attitudinizing, occurred before the intermission.

From New York Times

The play sustains this tongue-in-cheek attitudinizing almost until the end.

From New York Times