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histrionic
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Definition:insincere and overly dramatic, as a drama queen
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"' What are thousand pound fur coats, what are quarter million incomes?'" She looked up from the page with a histrionic movement of the head; her orange coiffure nodded portentously. Denis looked at it, fascinated.
Aldous Huxley. Crome Yellow (1921)
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he was in the habit of walking about with young men, exactly as the circumcised scribe keeps referring in and out of season to the ‘Eldest Daughter of the Church’ and the ‘Sacred Heart of Jesus,’ that is to say without the least trace of hypocrisy, but with a distinctly histrionic effect.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 5]
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"But the histrionic muse is the darling. Have you ever trod the boards, Royalty?"
Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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