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  • verb Present participle of comport.

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Examples

  • Ha! that is what one might call comporting oneself with dignity.

    Hunger 2003

  • Ha! that is what one might call comporting oneself with dignity.

    Hunger Knut Hamsun 1905

  • CCA has failed in its obligation to run the McRae Correctional Facility in a manner comporting with basic human dignity.

    Azadeh Shahshahani: License to Abuse? Time for Bureau of Prisons to Sever Ties With CCA Azadeh Shahshahani 2011

  • In Lambda Legal's work on behalf of transgender prisoners and transgender youth in shelters and group homes a priority because so many LGBT children are ejected from their homes we seek to have officials use transgender people's pronouns and names of choice, and permit clothing comporting with their gender identity.

    Hayley Gorenberg: The Affirmative Power of Visibility Hayley Gorenberg 2010

  • In Lambda Legal's work on behalf of transgender prisoners and transgender youth in shelters and group homes a priority because so many LGBT children are ejected from their homes we seek to have officials use transgender people's pronouns and names of choice, and permit clothing comporting with their gender identity.

    Hayley Gorenberg: The Affirmative Power of Visibility Hayley Gorenberg 2010

  • All right, I do bad, what with crasting and tolchocks and carves with the britva and the old in-out-in-out, and if I get loveted, well, too bad for me, O my little brothers, and you can't run a country with every chelloveck comporting himself in my manner of the night.

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • In Lambda Legal's work on behalf of transgender prisoners and transgender youth in shelters and group homes a priority because so many LGBT children are ejected from their homes we seek to have officials use transgender people's pronouns and names of choice, and permit clothing comporting with their gender identity.

    Hayley Gorenberg: The Affirmative Power of Visibility Hayley Gorenberg 2010

  • "Since when have you been consorting and comporting with Will the English?"

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • David Gregory, comporting himself in the redefined role he outlined to Colbert, challenged McConnell on anything not a single time!

    A call to arms: It is deja vu all over again: Our Galileo 'You Are There' Moment 2009

  • The real issue has to do with the damaging, downright demagogic way that the two Republican "leaders" have been comporting themselves in recent months, regarding the tortuous efforts to enact meaningful national health reform, including a new public option health plan that can compete with private, for-profit insurance plans in the free market.

    Florida Republican Party Rotting From Top Down 2009

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