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What does histrionic mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word histrionic? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Of, or relating to actors or acting.
  2. Excessively dramatic or emotional, especially with the intention to draw attention.
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Taking offence, making a show of it, is a peculiarly self-theatrical, melodramatic, histrionic gesture in the annals of criticism.
My friends hated these poems because the poems were crazy and because Bingo read them in a crazy, histrionic manner.
They encored with England Made Me, and a brilliantly dispassionate version of one of Bowie's more histrionic moments.
Even by his own histrionic standards, O'Neill's reaction to the match-winning penalty in Lyon on Wednesday night laid bare his soul.
It makes their debut single, Toni Braxton's Unbreak My Heart, more interesting than the popstrel's rather histrionic version.
Dubble pushed off into the air again and in a histrionic sally swung his arms open, as if to dramatize his explanation.

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