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Performatively meaning
In a performative manner.
Example sentences (4)
It’s one thing if characters are performatively vacant or vacuous — “American Psycho” and “” are long too, but in those books it’s a joke that no one can keep the characters straight.
He also found time to get performatively angry at the prospect of Winston Churchill’s statue being removed, which was never a serious proposal made by anyone at all.
The flexitarian, smartarse, squabbling, umbrage-taking, performatively progressive end.
Bullying rhetoric aside, one of her worst moments came last May, when Haley performatively of a UN Security Council session as soon as Palestinian Permanent Observer Riyad Mansour had begun to speak.