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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
portrait .
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Examples
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John Edwards portraited himself as a great family man, loving, devoted husband to his wife, who was a cancer survivor … just TOO much!
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John Truong on Apr 18, 2008 no no no no no! Rose McGowan does not emboby anything that Jane Fonda portraited in Barbarella.
Rose McGowan Says Barbarella Still Moving Forward « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Itâs the way archetypes are portraited that makes them stereotype or cliché.
Patrick Rothfuss: „There will be sex“ « Memesis Virtualis 2009
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Itâs the way archetypes are portraited that makes them stereotype or cliché.
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I look to Don Marquis, to H.L. Mencken, to Heywood Broun, to Clayton Hamilton, and to my friend here portraited, to remedy this.
Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923
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Jim was stupefied to find himself once more pilloried and portraited and ballyhooed in the newspapers.
We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914
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Rozinante was marvellous well portraited; so long and lank, so thin and lean, so like one labouring with an incurable consumption, as he did show very clearly with what consideration and propriety he had given unto him the name Rozinante.
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The parlor was high-studded and square-pianoed and chromoed and oil-portraited and black-walnutted and marble-topped and hairclothed.
Fair Harbor Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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The outgoing Mr. Zucker is by all accounts brash,abrasive and quick to make decisions, as he was portraited in Was Jeff Zucker Really So Bad For NBC Universal?
Forbes.com: News Adam Hartung 2011
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Having no relatives worthy of being portraited, the Baron has made up for this lack by commissioning a seemingly never-ending series of ever larger portraits of himself.
New Statesman Gideon Donald 2010
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