A deliberate pretense or exaggerated display.
A behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual.
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Examples for "idiosyncrasy "
Examples for "idiosyncrasy "
1 The cruelty of boys is an idiosyncrasy in their otherwise generous character.
2 Each physical feature and habitual idiosyncrasy will abide in his redeemed personality.
3 Take the horse for an example of the average beast without idiosyncrasy .
4 And always the marked idiosyncrasy of this spot has been its unrest.
5 That was a depth to which the Kelmscott idiosyncrasy could never descend.
1 Once more the company laughed at Sir Chichester's apology for his foible .
2 His love of dress is a mere foible , that may be excused.
3 Mrs. Vint had pricked his conscience, but she had wounded his foible .
4 The Doctor's little foible of curiosity had not escaped his observant eye.
5 José Medina saw nothing at all grotesque or ridiculous in this particular foible .
1 There was something in the action that suggested more than a mannerism .
2 His mannerism with them, it was patient, polite, genuine and very helpful.
3 The characteristics of rhetoric are insipidity, mannerism , and monotonous parallelism of clauses.
4 An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
5 His mannerism is great, but it is a noble and welcome mannerism .
6 That particular mannerism would be barred from its speech from that moment on.
7 It did not signify anything in particular, merely an unconscious mannerism .
8 His poems exhibit the exact opposite of the Petrarchistic or the Marinistic mannerism .
9 The mannerism denotes a politician bracing himself for another round of Yes campaigning.
10 But mannerism can be only avoided by the most thorough practice and knowledge.
11 She had grown accustomed to the hybrid nature of his mannerism .
12 Judge Ronnie Strackman stroked his beard, a mannerism Quinn had grown to detest.
13 The odd mannerism jostled a gaggle of cells where a memory was stored.
14 That same mannerism -the stroking of a small pointed beard!
15 His dead wife, Helen, had often teased him about the mannerism .
16 Impossible to judge himself infallibly, but he was conscious of no vulgar mannerism .
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