Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Characterized by mannerism.
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- adjective Relating to, or exhibiting,
mannerisms .
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Examples
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I don't care if you lie, I lie but do it in a courteous, manneristic and humanistic way.
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Court and Solomon also have strong twirling movement, but look more manneristic.
Samson and Delilah James Gurney 2009
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A superficial and manneristic preoccupation with religion, philosophy, and other abstract themes may add to the listener's difficulty in following the train of thought.
Madness and Survival The Daily Growler 2006
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Schizophrenics frequently speak in a stilted, manneristic fashion, and the fluency of their speech may be intermittently disturbed, with paucity of speech, verbigeration (associations repeated in a stereotyped manner, palilalia in the aphasia literature), or perseveration (words or phrases repetitively inserted in the flow of speech).
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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These forms are manifested by recurrent illusions; odd manneristic speech; suspiciousness; and preoccupation of thought, usually of culturally deviant topics e.g., satanism, magic, ghosts.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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It is worth pointing out that this gallery is entirely middle-class—only McMillan appears to be really upwardly mobile—and that the portraits are very manneristic.
film flam Larry McMurtry 1987
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It is worth pointing out that this gallery is entirely middle-class—only McMillan appears to be really upwardly mobile—and that the portraits are very manneristic.
film flam Larry McMurtry 1987
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It is worth pointing out that this gallery is entirely middle-class—only McMillan appears to be really upwardly mobile—and that the portraits are very manneristic.
film flam Larry McMurtry 1987
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This was a point of view peculiar to the manneristic trend in aesthetics of the seven - teenth century.
CLASSIFICATION OF THE ARTS W. TATARKIEWICZ 1968
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We are sometimes told that certain manneristic ways are often a speaker's strength.
Public Speaking Irvah Lester Winter
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