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Definition of "comportment" []

  • Bearing; deportment. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "comportment" in a sentence
  • "He had few friends, disdained tobacco and beer, was inevitably correct in comportment and dress, had a strong handshake and sincere blue eyes."
  • "I believe that you have identified yourself as a 3L yourself, possibly at one of the DC law schools (AU?), and I think you show serious deficiencies in comportment."
  • "A crowd of AF officers, young Big Pharma exec trackers, nuke engineers, and a few scattered managers from a plant soon to be closed & sent to China lost all their "comportment"."