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deportment
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun deportment has 1 sense
- deportment(n = noun.attribute) behavior, behaviour, conduct, demeanor, demeanour - (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people; Array is a kind of trait
has particulars: manners, citizenship, swashbuckling, correctitude, properness, propriety, improperness, impropriety, manner, personal manner
Derived form verb deport1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
deportment, n. bearing, demeanour, or manners, esp. of a cultivated kind.
Etymology
F d{eacute}portement (as DEPORT)
THESAURUS
deportment
action, actions, activity, acts, address, affectation, air, bearing, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm, behavioral science, carriage, comportment, conduct, culture pattern, custom, demeanor, doing, doings, folkway, gestures, goings-on, guise, maintien, manner, manners, method, methodology, methods, mien, modus vivendi, motions, movements, moves, observable behavior, pattern, poise, port, pose, posture, practice, praxis, presence, procedure, proceeding, set, social science, style, tactics, tone, way, way of life, waysROGET THESAURUS
deportment
Conduct
N conduct, behavior, deportment, comportment, carriage, maintien, demeanor, guise, bearing, manner, observance, dealing, transaction, business, tactics, game, game plan, policy, polity, generalship, statesmanship, seamanship, strategy, strategics, plan, management, husbandry, housekeeping, housewifery, stewardship, menage, regime, economy, economics, political economy, government, execution, manipulation, treatment, campaign, career, life, course, walk, race, record, course of conduct, line of conduct, line of action, line of proceeding, role, process, ways, practice, procedure, modus operandi, MO, method of operating, method, path, conducting, strategical, businesslike, practical, executive.
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