Definition of "histrionical" []

• Alternative form of histrionic. (adjective)

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• "She was accustomed to a certain domineering authority in his language, rendered all the more difficult to endure by the sarcasm with which he sometimes embittered his words, as though he had dipped them in gall before pronouncing them, -- but this apparent abandonment of reserve, this almost touching assumption of candour, were phases of his histrionical ability which he had never till now displayed in her presence."
• "THOUGH the world be histrionical, and most men live ironically, yet be thou what thou singly art, and personate only thyself."
• "The same Bottom, who seems bred in a tiring-room, has another histrionical passion."