deportment
pronunciation
How to pronounce deportment in British English:
UK [dɪˈpɔ:tmənt]
How to pronounce deportment in American English:
US [dɪˈpɔrtmənt]
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- Noun:
- (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people
Word Origin
- deportment (n.)
- c. 1600, from Middle French déportement, from déporter "to behave," from Old French deporter (see deport (v.1)).
Example
- 1. The actors were given lessons in speech and deportment .
- 2. A bilingual secretary from cameroon , she is immaculately dressed and has the practised deportment of a society debutante .
- 3. Swithin drew his heels together , his deportment ever admirable .
- 4. Good deportment , she claims , is a way to avoid the social pitfalls that come from the chinese not understanding western culture and vice versa .
- 5. Miss moore was a woman of steady deportment , without the least levity of conversation or carriage .