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histrionics

[his-tree-on-iks]

noun (used with a singular or plural verb)

dramatic representation; theatricals; acting.

behavior or speech for effect, as insincere or exaggerated expression of an emotion; dramatics; operatics: Cut out the histrionics—we know you're not really mad.

Origin:
1860–65; see histrionic, -ics

Can be confused: hysterics, histrionics.

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Example Sentences

After the histrionics of the last few days, the spring and summer couture collections ended on a calming note today.

In the past he has faced down critics with histrionics and theatrical brinkmanship.

No histrionics or wild googleeyed accusations to be seen.

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After the histrionics of the last few days, the spring and summer couture collections ended on a calming note today.

In the past he has faced down critics with histrionics and theatrical brinkmanship.

No histrionics or wild googleeyed accusations to be seen.

It is rare to encounter such a determined lack of ostentatious histrionics in this music.

Either would be appropriate channels for your histrionics.

The histrionics of the global warming faithful is always good for a laugh.

Given the subject matter, the dancers' histrionics could be called appropriately melodramatic.

It's nice to see a journalist not engaging in histrionics over the potential uses of cash.

But its histrionics were attention getting rather than eloquent.

The judge threw ostentatious glances at the clock, annoyed by the histrionics and eager to get to the job at hand.

She doesn't serve the cause of victims with such histrionics.

Histrionics fly high in the mistaken notion that shouting is synonymous with acting.

Subtlety is not the precise word for the histrionics of the leads.

His suffering is regal in its imposing aura of silence, not in histrionics.

Westminster is the antidote to modern sports: short on histrionics and pyrotechnics.

Its originality extends well beyond the limits of ordinary high school histrionics and into the realm of the genuinely perverse.

Without histrionics but with intensity of feeling, the four convey the torment endured in captivity.

Graf outwardly ignored the teen-ager's histrionics and inwardly told.

Potential histrionics are averted by the controlled performances and by a certain restraint in the writing.

Opalach sang with the appropriate weight, and one got more or less used to his histrionics.

Elsewhere the playing offered drama without histrionics and heart-on-sleeve feelings with no loss of dignity.

Histrionics were the tactics of a minority of those who participated in the challenging and.

No overacting or amateurish stage histrionics clap their hammy, destructive hands in this production.

Perry, the man who was defined by the spitball, and by all of the histrionics that accompanied.

Which is a pity, because a rich and peculiar story lies underneath the histrionics.

And she did it without resorting to maudlin speeches or tear-jerking vocal histrionics.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

adjective Also, his·tri·on·i·cal.

of or pertaining to actors or acting.

deliberately affected or self-consciously emotional; overly dramatic, in behavior or speech.

noun

an actor.

Origin:
1640–50; < Late Latin histrōnicus of actors, equivalent to histriōn- (stem of histriō) actor (said to be < Etruscan ) + -icus -ic

Related forms

his·tri·on·i·cal·ly, adverb

non·his·tri·on·ic, adjective

non·his·tri·on·i·cal, adjective

non·his·tri·on·i·cal·ly, adverb

non·his·tri·on·i·cal·ness, noun

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un·his·tri·on·ic, adjective

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Word Origin & History

histrionic

1648, from L. histrionicus "pertaining to an actor," from histrio (gen. histrionis) "actor," said to be of Etruscan origin.

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