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mannerism

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈmænəˌɹɪzəm/Part of speech nounSorted aeimmnnrsStarts with MEnds with M0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display

Word origin

From manner + -ism.

Used in a sentence

  • The Inspector looked round. He knew well enough that they were alone in the study at The Turrets, but the action had become something of a mannerism with him.
  • artists […] dabblingly pursuing a kind of formalist mannerism merely in the interest of careerism
  • He generally spoke without academic mannerism, though on occasion he dipped into the over-wrought thickets of eduspeak to find words like “antithetical” or “foci” or “interface.”

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