• v.
    ⦿behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others
    lexical concept
  • Don't pay any attention to him — he is always posing to impress his peers!
  • She postured and made a total fool of herself

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:pose
  2. enl:posture
wn:interlingual indexili:i34309

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelposeposture