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Deportment

Manner of deporting or demeaning one's self; manner of acting; conduct; carriage; especially, manner of acting with respect to the courtesies and duties of life; behavior; demeanor; bearing.

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Citizenship 76% connected

The state of being a citizen; the status of a citizen.

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Impropriety 76% connected

The quality of being improper; unfitness or unsuitableness to character, time place, or circumstances; as, impropriety of behavior or manners.

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Manner 76% connected

Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion.

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Properness 76% connected

The quality of being proper.

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Propriety 76% connected

Individual right to hold property; ownership by personal title; property.

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Trait 76% connected

A stroke; a touch.

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Comport 74% connected

To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Comport 74% connected

To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury.

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Behavior 92% connected

Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the beh…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Behaviour 92% connected

(psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Conduct 92% connected

The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Demeanor 92% connected

Management; treatment; conduct.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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