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Another word for deportment

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Noun

  1. The manner in which one behaves

      1. Habitual or vigorous activity; energy:
      2. The most important or exciting work or activity in a specific field or area:
      3. The way of moving, working, etc., as of a machine, an organ of the body, etc.
      1. The manner in which something functions or operates:
      2. An instance of behavior; specif., one of a recurring or characteristic pattern of observable actions or responses
      3. The way a machine, element, etc. acts or functions
      1. Manner of behaving; bearing; deportment.
      2. Behavior or bearing; deportment
      3. The manner in which one behaves or conducts oneself
      1. (Rare) The act of leading; guidance
      2. (Obsolete) A guide; an escort.
      3. The process or way of managing or directing; management; handling
      1. An aspect, particular, or feature:
      2. Distance [a long way off]
      3. Space to proceed:
    See also:

    be

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Another word for deportment

Noun
  1. See also:

    behavior

    bearing

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • The fifth compound, on the other hand, does not behave as an unsaturated aliphatic compound, but its deportment is that of a nucleus, many substitution derivatives being capable of synthesis.

  • Vasari eulogizes Mantegna for his courteous, distinguished and praiseworthy deportment, although there are indications of his having been not a little litigious in disposition.

  • In 441 a synod of sixteen bishops was held at Orange under the presidency of St Hilary of Arles, which adopted thirty canons touching the reconciliation of penitents and heretics; the ecclesiastical right of asylum, diocesan prerogatives of bishops, spiritual privileges of the defective or demoniac, the deportment of catechumens at worship, and clerical celibacy (forbidding married men to be ordained as deacons, and digamists to be advanced beyond the sub-diaconate).

  • The effect of the privations and sufferings which he endured at this time was discernible to the last in his temper and his deportment.

  • Be taught deportment, have your nails painted and have your eyebrows plucked (if you dare) by an understanding female.

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