Mannerist

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  • n. Someone especially interested in personal manners
  • n. One who has many idiosyncratic mannerisms
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under mannerism.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who is addicted to mannerism.
    • Word Usage
    "He was noted as much for his small stature (he was just over five feet tall) as for his comic roles, most of which werelike that of Fritzwritten for him and therefore tended to become ever more similar in nature and substance, so much so that he was regarded as a "mannerist," or what today is called a "stock" character actor whose roles become inseparable from the actor himself."
    Variant
    mannerism   
    Form
    manneristic   
    Same Context
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