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词汇 histrionic
释义 histrionic
adjective
 disapprovinguk /ˌhɪs.triˈɒn.ɪk/ us /ˌhɪs.triˈɑː.nɪk/
very emotional and energetic, but not sincere or without real meaning: 做作的,装腔作势的
a histrionic outburst装腔作势的激情迸发
She put on a histrionic display of grief at the funeral.她在葬礼上装出一副悲伤的样子。
Synonym
melodramatic
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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affectation
affected
affectedly
archly
artificial
feyness
forced
forcedly
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glib
piously
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posey
preciously
sugary
super-smooth
superslick
talk the talk ... walk the walkidiom
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histrionically

histrionic | American Dictionary


histrionic
adjective
us/ˌhɪs·triˈɑn·ɪk/
(of behavior) showing a lot of emotion in order to persuade others or attract attention:
a histrionic performance

Examples of histrionic


histrionic
Fearful adults scored extremely low and significantly lower than preoccupied and dismissing adults on the histrionic and narcissistic dimensions.
Throughout this long histrionic scene, the hero wanders dejected, consciencestricken, isolated from all other humans.
This punishment is effected by letting the real world occupy her space and rendering her histrionic character homeless.
There were no individuals in this study who were diagnosed with dependent, schizotypal, histrionic, narcissistic, or borderline personality disorders.
Because we take the seer to be a fraud, we interpret her spiritual fit as merely histrionic.
Her personality, however, was highly emotional and at times histrionic.
Is this what provokes the histrionic outburst in the first violin in bar 105?
Protests against amalgamation became histrionic.
I quoted the relevant letters earlier, but now that we know the context and the histrionic and declamatory innovations to which they perhaps refer, they are worth revisiting.
Dependent and histrionic personality disorder were the most frequent diagnoses on the second axis.
Response inhibition problems were also associated with histrionic personality disorder.
Really, we must get away from that "phoney" histrionic nonsense, and come back to what is the real issue here.
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Instead, it has chosen to adopt a more histrionic approach.
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I regard this as mere histrionic talk and not a recipe for greatness.
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We are, perhaps, alone in knowing his qualities in the histrionic field.
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