Guises

Word GUISES
Character 6
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈɡaɪzɪz/

Definitions and meanings of "Guises"

What do we mean by guises?

Customary way of speaking or acting; fashion, manner, practice (often used formerly in such phrases as "at his own guise"; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.)

External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape.

Misleading appearance; cover, cloak.

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The word "guises" in example sentences

Institutionalised, the obligations of 18th-century conversation extend from the learned club to the university, bypassing the exclusiveness of legal formality or any of the proprieties restricting the swapping of information, but bypassing them in guises that never explicitly threaten them. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Of course he's so many people but the person who is Wyl beneath the guises is a courageous, strong-willed young man who is required to live on his wits through terrible circumstances. ❋ Freedomstar (2009)

She appeared in the prettiest of all feminine guises, that is to say, in demi-toilette, with plenty of loose curly hair tumbling down about her shoulders. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Matthew Scudder — ex-cop, ex-boozer — has known death in all its guises, which is why he has been asked to investigate a baffling, thirty-year run of suicides and suspiciously random accidents that has thinned the ranks of this very select group of gentlemen. ❋ Block, Lawrence (1992)

This is characteristic of push polling strategies, which involves the repetition of a specific question in different guises - in other words, anyone who wanted to raise awareness of water pollution would ask multiple questions on it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

NGOs under various guises which is part of a strategy to silence people's voices and concerns. ❋ Abhay N (2006)

Regarding the use of "guises" in the Instruction section, this is totally legit. ❋ Aschlafly (2010)

It's set in a world in which humans haven't a clue that dinos, rather than being extinct, still comprise a goodly percentage of the population, togged out in customised human "guises" featuring intricate harnesses to keep errant tails under control, and available with "extras" such as film star-full lips or macho chest hair. ❋ Suzanne Munshower (2009)

Expect a metamorphosis into one of his other "guises", soon. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As an actor, he twists himself into a variety of guises which is nothing less than astonishing: the whining Byron being slapped by his horrendous wife, the inane fortune teller with eye-bulging leers and generous hand gestures, the deranged entrepreneur whose fixation with serial killers takes sensationalist obsession out of pop-fascination into a dangerous stratosphere of deification, and (in what could have been a huge mess, but which is actually a crown-of-thorns achievement) the malevolent Christ who provides physical and vocal embodiment to the lunatic theology of anyone who misreads the Gospels and replaces its message of peace and love with a mindframe of intolerance and malice. ❋ Unknown (2002)

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