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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
posturing
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He dismissed the Senator's comments as "political posturing."
▪ Ken's muscular posturing in front of the mirror is making me sick.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the notion of an instrument turns out to be as empty as his posturing.
▪ Janir chose skiing, which like so many sports was laced with posturing and attitude and ostentatious display.
▪ Jeffries had turned City into a symbol of racial posturing.
▪ Now take such ritual posturing and stage it nation-wide.
▪ Political posturing has encouraged a degeneration into the politicization of social issues.
▪ The male courts the female by singing and posturing, often with a small twig or leaf in his bill.
▪ There was much aggressive posturing, bowing, beating of half-open wings.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Posturing

Posture \Pos"ture\ (?; 135), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Postured; p. pr. & vb. n. Posturing.] To place in a particular position or attitude; to dispose the parts of, with reference to a particular purpose; as, to posture one's self; to posture a model.
--Howell.

Wiktionary
posturing

n. 1 The assumption of an exaggerated pose or attitude. 2 The behaviour of some birds as a means of signalling etc. vb. (present participle of posture English)

WordNet
posturing

n. adopting a vain conceited posture

Usage examples of "posturing".

Fitzgerald and the other hyper-educated apostates on the island would have necessarily gone to Mass and confession, necessarily been beaten by Christian Brothers and necessarily been sickened by the posturings of their politicians before looking for their vengeance.

He did all kinds of posturings and balancings on it, himself sometimes standing up on the rungs and sometimes horizontal to the ladder, held only by one heel against and one toe under the rungs, while the ladder teetered and swayed, but miraculously always stayed erect.

But now, beholding Yolande amid her flowers, herself as sweet and fresh as they, he made an end of his singing and betook him, straightway, to amorous looks and deep-fetched sighs together with many supple bendings of the back, elegant posturings and motitions of slim legs, fannings and flauntings of be-feathered cap, and the like gallantries.

They could not recover it by legal posturings about Rinhoel's blood claim, even though Chiana had been but six years old when forced to sign a parchment disinheriting herself and all her issue.

Look at it that way Oscar, they just claim parody, the worse this cartoon character of theirs is, the more they hold Bagby with all his posturings around up for ridicule the stronger their parody defense.

I have seen people and their fruitless societies in such repetitive posturings that their nonsense fills me with boredom, do you hear?

By standing in my stirrups, I was able to see far enough down the line to observe the official posturings, and grudgingly nodded my agreement.

Six billion ordinary, unruly human beings, infesting the planet with their barbaric posturings, problems, and prejudices.