Definitions for deportment

deportment de·port·ment

Spelling: [dih-pawrt-muh nt, -pohrt-]
IPA: /dɪˈpɔrt mənt, -ˈpoʊrt-/

Deportment is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 482 anagrams from letters in deportment (deemnoprtt).

Definitions for deportment

noun

  1. demeanor; conduct; behavior.
  2. the conduct or obedience of a child in school, as graded by a teacher.

Origin of deportment

1595-1605; French déportement, equivalent to déporte(r) (see deport) + -ment -ment

Examples for deportment

It was almost as if his lordship were giving the Colonel a lesson in deportment.

Nothing can be changed, and the deportment class has very wisely been abolished.

She also taught him dancing and deportment, and to sew on a button.

He was my superior in everything—in games, in studies, in quarrels, and in deportment.

Madeleine was not struck by any singularity in his deportment.

In other respects, the deportment of the females was strictly unexceptionable.

Society had taught her tact, grace, and elegance of deportment.

At thirteen she was married, which had a good effect on her deportment.

They found her person agreeable and her deportment dignified.

His wife added to this care uneasiness as to the deportment of her three maidens.

Word Value for deportment
Scrable

15

Words with friends

18

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