All 8 Uses
demeanor
in
A Hope in the Unseen
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- He is now a popular member of Ballou's mainstream, sporting his tough guy/clown demeanor and a new nickname he recently came up with, "Blunt," slang for a marijuana cigar.†
Chpt 3 *
- For the past couple of months he has been sneaking off to a few after-school practices a week but not telling many of his friends, uncertain whether it fits with his carefully crafted demeanor.†
Chpt 3
- Every day in calculus, Cedric finds himself studying Andrew, the way he cocks his head or handles his pen, as though attitude and demeanor might hold clues to his success.†
Chpt 4
- Because his coolness and self-confidence is subterranean, springing from beneath his casual demeanor, it's important that surface issues, like how clean you keep your room, are afterthoughts.†
Chpt 8
- But Rob seems to be picking at the scars, even though his white, doctor's son demeanor couldn't be further from that of tormentors of the past who were always in his face.†
Chpt 10
- He eventually makes him out as a thoroughly average white, middle-aged guy of average height, with a conventionally professorial demeanor and an unremarkable lecturing style-all of it squeezed into a standard-issue tweed jacket.†
Chpt 11
- He'd had Ted Sizer, Brown's famous education professor, back when he was getting his master's in education at Harvard in the late '60s; his mix of teaching and administrating might intrigue them; and he "presented" well, with his easy, affable manner, accessible good looks (much like the fatherly, grayhaired actor William Windom), and the slightly rumpled demeanor of a professor, all tweed and oxford cotton and rep ties.†
Chpt 12
- It's a place rarely frequented by Brown kids, who tend to stick to Thayer Street, where every establishment (no matter if it's the sparkling, two-story Gap or the splintery Hole-in-the-Wall Records and Tapes) carries a gleam of college-townness in decor and demeanor.†
Chpt 13
Definitions:
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(1)
(demeanor) the manner in which a person behaves
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, the verb form may be used as a synonym for behave as in: "Try to demean yourself with dignity."