Definition of "histrionic" []

• Of or relating to actors or acting. (adjective)
• Excessively dramatic or emotional; affected. (adjective)

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• "A writer who refers to a legislator that has been appointed to an Obama committee as a flaming liberal calling me histrionic is hilarious."
• "Police indulged in 'histrionic gestures' during investigation of loans-for-peerages allegations, says former aide to Tony Blair"
• "The word histrionic is derived through the Latin from an Etruscan word which means "to leap" and was originally applied to dancers."