demeanour

our way of behaving

TRANSLATION

Auftreten, Benehmen, Verhalten, Haltung

STATISTICS

IN THE PRESS

In the US, Christians have forced TV stations to stop a cartoon showing God as a Jerry Garcia-style God: "God wears dark glasses and has the amiable DEMEANOUR of Garcia (Jerry Garcia of rock band Grateful Dead) who for a sizeable number of his fans, was God anyway."

(The Guardian 16th March 2000)

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demeanour

Our demeanour is our personal way of behaving, of holding or of carrying ourselves:

"She had such a pleasant demeanour, I hired her immediately."

Note: US spelling "demeanor"

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