postured
Assumed an attitude
Postured is the past tense of posture, meaning to assume a particular physical position or, more commonly, to adopt an attitude for effect rather than sincerity.
Politicians postured for the cameras.
Someone who postured as an expert made a show of expertise they may not have possessed.
The word often implies artifice or performance: He postured as a reformer while maintaining the status quo.
Artificially formal in style
- artificialMade, not natural
- insincereFeigning belief or feeling
- contrivedDeliberately manufactured, unnatural
- theatricalExaggeratedly emotional for effect
stilted · pretentious · ostentatious · exaggerated · overdone · forced · strained · showy
Standing posture or viewpoint
- poseDeliberate bodily arrangement
- positionLocation or stance
- alignmentCorrect relative positioning
- bearingPosture or orientation
carriage · deportment · poise · erectness · slouch · stoop · upright · rigid
Standing posture or viewpoint
- positionLocation or stance
- maneuveredMoved with calculated skill
- strategizedFormulated a plan
- alignedArranged in proper position
signaled · angled · calculated · lobbied · grandstanding · pandering · blustering · saber-rattling
Falsely displayed or simulated
- pretendedActed falsely
- fakedFalsely produced or simulated
- simulatedMade to imitate reality
- dissembledHid true feelings
bluffed · masqueraded · playacted · impersonated · fronted · fabricated · misrepresented · deceived
mannered
Artificially formal in style
- artificialMade, not natural
- insincereFeigning belief or feeling
- contrivedDeliberately manufactured, unnatural
theatrical · stilted · pretentious · ostentatious · exaggerated · overdone · forced · strained · showy · self-conscious
stance
Standing posture or viewpoint
bearing · carriage · deportment · poise · erectness · slouch · stoop · upright · rigid · relaxed
stance
Standing posture or viewpoint
- positionLocation or stance
- maneuveredMoved with calculated skill
- strategizedFormulated a plan
aligned · signaled · angled · calculated · lobbied · grandstanding · pandering · blustering · saber-rattling · brinkmanship
feigned
Falsely displayed or simulated
dissembled · bluffed · masqueraded · playacted · impersonated · fronted · fabricated · misrepresented · deceived · guise
posturedgenuine
Truly what it claims
authentic · sincere · natural · unaffected · unpretentious
posturedwithheld
Kept from giving
reserved · restrained · understated · reticent · undemonstrative
- bad posture
- proper postureCorrect body alignment
- open postureAccessible body language
- posture adjustmentCorrecting bodily alignment
- body posturePhysical stance and alignment
- relaxed postureUnstrained body positioning
posture, posturing, postures, imposture, postural, posturer, posturings