作勢 /作势 verb (to assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses — see also posture, posturize)

Dutch

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aanstellen verb (to assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses — see also posture, posturize)

Finnish

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olla olevinaan ... verb (to assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses — see also posture, posturize)
olla olevinaan ... verb (to create art, speak, or write in a manner which assumes affected, exaggerated, or unnatural attitudes)
tekeytyä verb (to give the appearance of, or make a show of (something) by assuming an affected or exaggerated attitude)
tekeytyä verb (to assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses — see also posture, posturize)

German

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(etwas) darstellen verb (to assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses — see also posture, posturize)
affektiert sein verb (to assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses — see also posture, posturize)
eine Rolle spielen verb (to assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses — see also posture, posturize)
geziert agieren verb (to create art, speak, or write in a manner which assumes affected, exaggerated, or unnatural attitudes)

Romanian

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face nazuri verb (to assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses — see also posture, posturize)

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In Greenwich, there were many gravelled walks, unshrubbed except for the nurses who dotted them, silent and attitudinized as trees.

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While she, one hand on his arm, had been attitudinizing her dutiful gratitude, he—as she suddenly realized—had been deciding to rid her of Fordham [her estate manager]. No sentimentalizing, no attitudinizing there!

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He had a great averſion to geſticulating in company. He called once to a gentleman vvho offended him in that point, "Don't attitudeniſe."

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Charlotte, who has the beſt voice, was brought out to ſing, but was placed a little behind, as her perſon is not quite perfect; Maria, who is the moſt pictureſque figure, was put to attitudinize at the harp, […]

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