Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Manner of behaving; bearing; deportment. synonym: behavior.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Behavior; demeanor; deportment.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Manner of acting; behavior; bearing.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The manner in which one behaves or conducts oneself
  • noun deportment, bearing

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun dignified manner or conduct

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Examples

  • He had few friends, disdained tobacco and beer, was inevitably correct in comportment and dress, had a strong handshake and sincere blue eyes.

    “Samuel! There was a rolling wonder in the sound. Ay, there was!” 2008

  • I believe that you have identified yourself as a 3L yourself, possibly at one of the DC law schools (AU?), and I think you show serious deficiencies in comportment.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Faisal Shahzad Allegedly Admits to Attempted Times Square Bombing 2010

  • A crowd of AF officers, young Big Pharma exec trackers, nuke engineers, and a few scattered managers from a plant soon to be closed & sent to China lost all their "comportment".

    How outrageous would it be for a professor to eat during class? Ann Althouse 2008

  • His every attribute had seemed to accentuate his promise: his elegant comportment, his coolness under assault, the way he worked his audiences into a kind of rapture without getting carried away with himself, without shouting or surrendering his detachment.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

  • They continued through decent comportment (“In the presence of others, sing not to yourself with a humming noise nor drum with your fingers or feet”; and “Kill not vermin, as fleas, lice, ticks, etc., in the sight of others”) and such subjects as table manners (“Cleanse not your teeth with the tablecloth”), to general instructions on treating people considerately.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • George Will takes three lessons from Wisconsin, and puts Walker in some very heady company: Walker's calm comportment in this crisis is reminiscent of President Reagan's during his 1981 stand against the illegal strike by air traffic controllers, and Margaret Thatcher's in the 1984 showdown with the miners' union over whether unions or Parliament would govern Britain.

    Wonkbook: Are Republicans overreaching? Or just negotiating effectively? 2011

  • They continued through decent comportment (“In the presence of others, sing not to yourself with a humming noise nor drum with your fingers or feet”; and “Kill not vermin, as fleas, lice, ticks, etc., in the sight of others”) and such subjects as table manners (“Cleanse not your teeth with the tablecloth”), to general instructions on treating people considerately.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • His every attribute had seemed to accentuate his promise: his elegant comportment, his coolness under assault, the way he worked his audiences into a kind of rapture without getting carried away with himself, without shouting or surrendering his detachment.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

  • They continued through decent comportment (“In the presence of others, sing not to yourself with a humming noise nor drum with your fingers or feet”; and “Kill not vermin, as fleas, lice, ticks, etc., in the sight of others”) and such subjects as table manners (“Cleanse not your teeth with the tablecloth”), to general instructions on treating people considerately.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • I became so incensed that I was unable to maintain my journalistic comportment and burst out at him.

    David Wallechinsky: Why Do They Hate Us? David Wallechinsky 2011

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