comport

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

someone's behaviour
behaviourUKYour behaviour today was unacceptable.
conductHe was dismissed for inappropriate conduct.
comportmentThis scandal raises new questions about the president's comportment.
demeanourUKHe has a calm demeanour, even under pressure.
mannerHis manner can be condescending.
waysGrandma had some funny ways.
His bodily comportment (his military poses, fascinating facial displays, and committed expressions) visibly exuded sincerity.
Beau Brummel was famously a stickler in matters of comportment and dress.
By the time Starr was finished with his examination of the president's comportment, the nation knew many private, intimate details of Clinton's life.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Behaving, interacting and behaviour
as ye sow, so shall ye reapidiom
atavism
attachment disorder
attitude
bearing
behave
conduct
humanization
humanize
in someone's demeanour
interact
interaction
ism
make niceidiom
operant
phase
presence
provincialism
provincialist
sauce

Examples of comportment

comportment
These separated healing from individual comportment and made it scientistic.
They emphasised the salience of individual comportment, proper conduct and correspondence as central to individual well-being.
Because linguistic reference is deferred, gesture and bodily comportment take on additional weight.
Their additional highlight was the knowledge of body anatomy that questioned the earlier comportment-driven idea of well-being.
Physicians have to be trustworthy, and they also have to promote trust through their words, deeds, interaction, and comportment.
This body of advice literature offered instruction in democratic technique and comportment.
As suggested above, the resource base of the movements impinges on their comportment and their relationship with the peasantry.
He argued that medicine that depended on anatomy was different from the individual comportment-driven ideas of healing that perpetuated social hierarchies.
This space is confined and cramped, pertaining to bodily comportments of breaking out and resistance.
With respect to this enterprise, the pedagogical focus in the first years of primary school is on physical discipline and bodily comportment.
Known as extra-contractual obligations or as torts, this area of law concerns itself with one person's wrongful comportment that produces another person's injury.
This was as much the case with love as it was with elements of personal comportment, social disposition and ethical self-fashioning.
An ideal state that can be achieved by a few through proper comportment.
That is, the unconscious inserts itself through the body's physical comportment to do and to undo language.
It offers copious details of comportment, conduct, diet and deportment to maintain a good harmony between the individual and the society.
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