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Synonyms for portraying
por·tray·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
depicting, depiction, portraying, portrayalnoun
a representation by picture or portraiture
Synonyms:
line drawing, characterization, depicting, depiction, portraiture, characterisation, limning, portrait, word-painting, delineation, word picture, portrayal, enactment, picture, personation
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List of paraphrases for "portraying":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#631 | picture | |
#5895 | portrait | |
#7544 | describing | |
#9475 | characterization | |
#16823 | enactment | |
#21407 | depicting | |
#23245 | illustrating | |
#25588 | depiction | |
#25922 | portrayal | |
#31397 | characterisation | |
#37013 | delineation | |
#38342 | portraying | |
#43107 | portraiture |
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It’s an obvious thing, you win an Oscar and you’re supposed to be happy. I didn’t feel that way. I felt wrong that I was standing there in a gown that cost more than some people are going to see in their lifetime, and winning an award for portraying pain that still felt very much a part of our collective experience as human beings, i tried to pretend that I was happy and I got called out on it, big time. That’s the truth and that’s what happened.
The university should not let the complaints of a few students result in the cancellation of an important film honoring an American hero and accurately portraying the horrors of war.
... The biggest hypocrite in all of this was me thatI was portraying a person on the Internet that I was not behaving like privately.
Im so against anybody portraying that generation that didso much to raise such a great group of kidsto be looked at as hopeless and hapless, they would beput down and disgusted to be looked at as oppressed when we were victors.
Aerie hit it right at a time when people were tiring of what Victoria's Secret and PINK were portraying as overtly sexy and really unattainable beauty standards.
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