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mannerisms

noun as in body language

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Example Sentences

“I was playing him full out, complete with the accent and mannerisms,” Williams says.

The implication here is that they adopt the dress and mannerisms of men because they have failed as women.

Wardrobe, mannerisms, and intonation are fair game, and Chu certainly has his detractors there.

Even so, he was constantly teased and harassed for his appearance and mannerisms, even ostracized.

Here, instead of verbalizing her emotions, Winslet oozes dread via her broken-down visage, and slight mannerisms.

Then you would permit love to your married pair after they had probed each other's minds and mannerisms for a year or two?

Baudelaire has often been accused of studied bizarrerie, of affected and laboured originality, and especially of mannerisms.

Old Jeff referred to him as a dude, but the comment applied to mannerisms rather than clothes.

They carefully studied the speech and the mannerisms and customs of the Satorians.

One question I have to ask, and that is how has Sylvia learnt to imitate so bewilderingly the mannerisms of Michael?

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On this page you'll find 7 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mannerisms, such as: gesture, body movement, gestures, kinesics, motion, and visual communication.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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