deportment

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Locke has Charlie’s gentle deportment but with the soft edge of a cool-kid wise guy.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2023

Jan Whitefoot has a Fort Simcoe boarding school attendance and deportment ledger from 1897-98.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 18, 2022

Nor did he show any sign of taking them more seriously than he has taken past allegations of bias in his company’s workplaces or criticisms of his own deportment.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2022

However, in each of his persuasive speeches to world leaders and conversations with journalists, Zelenskyy conveys the deportment of a rational, determined man.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2022

Jo sat as if blandly unconscious of it all, with deportment like Maud’s face, ‘icily regular, splendidly null’.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott