Performative is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Performative meaning
- Being enacted as it is said.
- Insincere, inauthentic or disingenuous; done solely or largely as a performance, to produce an impression or enhance one's reputation.
Using Performative
- The main meaning on this page is: Being enacted as it is said. | Insincere, inauthentic or disingenuous; done solely or largely as a performance, to produce an impression or enhance one's reputation.
- In the example corpus, performative often appears in combinations such as: the performative, of performative, performative allyship.
Context around Performative
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 6 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Performative
- In this selection, "performative" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 20.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, feel, experience, whole, misrepresentation, talks and enactment stand out and add context to how "performative" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a bit performative in scope and all his performative scowling scholz. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "performative" sits close to words such as abdicated, acme and afcfta, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with performative
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Allyship is not performative. (4 words)
More performative BS from the Face Sporce? (7 words)
I’m open, and it’s not performative. (8 words)
Revel in the rituals of the queue, the performative rudeness of the cutters, and the way they throw a few slices of the smoked, spiced beef on to a plate on the counter for you to eat with your fingers while you wait. (43 words)
After a dominant defensive performance sparked a 10-7 win over the Patriots later that day, Daboll gave Martindale a game ball in the locker room in a presentation that was viewed as performative by team sources who knew the relationship was fractured. (43 words)
And for all his performative scowling, Scholz is clearly not up to the job of banging heads together when necessary; in fact, he has managed to look more indecisive than his predecessor Merkel, a past master in the art of putting things off. (43 words)
More performative BS from the Face Sporce? (7 words)
Example sentences (20)
America's top-rated daytime soap opera ignored queer characters for so long that now they just feel performative.
By continuing the narrative beyond the boundaries of February, we can expand our allyship to be an act of purpose and service, not simply a performative misrepresentation of respect.
Giannotti seemed pretty bothered by Kay’s actions, although maybe he was just being performative.
Interactive games, a mapping experience, performative talks, musical sets and exciting workshops are on the agenda, aiming to explore the relationship between art and technology.
In this small but telling example, we can glimpse the whole performative enactment of modern Russian fascism.
It can often appear as much the performative theater of progress as it does legitimate organizational improvement.
Revel in the rituals of the queue, the performative rudeness of the cutters, and the way they throw a few slices of the smoked, spiced beef on to a plate on the counter for you to eat with your fingers while you wait.
The F-22’s vulnerable position implied that the French fighter had won at least that round of performative dogfighting with the American jet.
They could value posturing over policy, performative displays over governing.
After a dominant defensive performance sparked a 10-7 win over the Patriots later that day, Daboll gave Martindale a game ball in the locker room in a presentation that was viewed as performative by team sources who knew the relationship was fractured.
Allyship is not performative.
And for all his performative scowling, Scholz is clearly not up to the job of banging heads together when necessary; in fact, he has managed to look more indecisive than his predecessor Merkel, a past master in the art of putting things off.
As far as I'm concerned, EDI - which also includes declaring pronouns, rainbow lanyards and race education seminars - is performative twaddle that allows woke elites to pat themselves on the back.
Central to this yarn has been performative allyship with various minority groups.
He has to do performative loyalty at 11 because staying at a 10 would not cut it.
However, "no matter how well intentioned, they have the tendency to be a bit performative in scope," she says.
I’m open, and it’s not performative.
Make no mistake, though, Deacon Liguori’s faith is anything but performative.
More performative BS from the Face Sporce?
Not everyone likes these videos, though, with some viewers deeming them, at their best, performative, and at their worst, exploitative.
Common combinations with performative
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the performative 6×
- of performative 5×
- performative allyship 4×
- and performative 4×
- not performative 3×
- be performative 2×
- performative art 2×
- as performative 2×
- more performative 2×
- performative and 2×