Meaning of comportment in English

comportment

noun [ U ]

formal

/kəmˈpɔːt.mənt/ us

/kəmˈpɔːrt.mənt/

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someone's behaviour:

This scandal raises new questions about the president's private comportment.

She had class, not in terms of wealth, but in terms of comportment, attitude and style.

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someone's behaviour

behaviourUK Your behaviour today was unacceptable.
conductHe was dismissed for inappropriate conduct.
comportmentThis scandal raises new questions about the president's comportment.
demeanourUK He has a calm demeanour, even under pressure.
mannerHis manner can be condescending.
waysGrandma had some funny ways.

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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.

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Behaving, interacting and behaviour

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(Definition of comportment from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of comportment

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These separated healing from individual comportment and made it scientistic.

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They emphasised the salience of individual comportment, proper conduct and correspondence as central to individual well-being.

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Because linguistic reference is deferred, gesture and bodily comportment take on additional weight.

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Their additional highlight was the knowledge of body anatomy that questioned the earlier comportment-driven idea of well-being.

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Physicians have to be trustworthy, and they also have to promote trust through their words, deeds, interaction, and comportment.

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This body of advice literature offered instruction in democratic technique and comportment.

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As suggested above, the resource base of the movements impinges on their comportment and their relationship with the peasantry.

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He argued that medicine that depended on anatomy was different from the individual comportment-driven ideas of healing that perpetuated social hierarchies.

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This space is confined and cramped, pertaining to bodily comportments of breaking out and resistance.

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With respect to this enterprise, the pedagogical focus in the first years of primary school is on physical discipline and bodily comportment.

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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.

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This was as much the case with love as it was with elements of personal comportment, social disposition and ethical self-fashioning.

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An ideal state that can be achieved by a few through proper comportment.

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That is, the unconscious inserts itself through the body's physical comportment to do and to undo language.

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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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