deportment
3
7.6
- noun
- /dɪˈpɔrtmənt/
- Archaic
:
comportamiento
- In formal gatherings, proper deportment is essential for making a good impression.
Examples
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Teachers often emphasize good deportment in classroom settings to encourage positive behavior.
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Proper stage deportment needs to be a clear and uncompromised expectation during concerts.
Academic text (2010) -
Also, musical selection, general spirit, and stage deportment can be considered.
Academic text (1992) -
We must look to our own deportment.
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Teachers have very specific procedures for learning, teaching, and deportment.
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A deportment that is motivated, clearly interested, and enthusiastic in classroom events and student learning.
Academic text (1994) -
Over the years, Nicolucci witnessed a marked improvement in her students' deportment and attention during school concerts as a result of this unit.
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Concert attendees are recipients of an artistic gift, so their demeanor and deportment should reflect appreciation.
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He's the handsomest man in the Russian court, tall and formed like a Greek god, a model in fashion and deportment which all of us strive to follow.
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The student's deportment during the assembly showed great respect for the speakers.
Synonyms
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1.8
The way a person or animal acts toward other people in social situations
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3.7
The way a person behaves in a particular situation
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4.9
The way a person behaves toward other people
How Polite
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word deportment comes from Latin parts de- ('away') and portare ('to carry'), and it once meant how someone 'carries' themselves. You can see the same root in English words like transport and portable, which are about carrying, so deportment now means a person's behaviour or manner.