Adjective : an actressy reading that distorted the character of Ophelia. From Dictionary.com.
Mrs. Lynde said she was very pretty ut kind of actressy looking, and must have been an awful lot younger than father. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of Avonlea] Reference
Mrs. Lynde said she was very pretty but kind of actressy looking, and must have been an awful lot younger than father. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of Avonlea] Reference
Faye is SO actressy that I think she would have a lot of interesting things to share. From Wordnik.com. [Summer Camp : Scrubbles.net] Reference
And then Court-land's arch, actressy voice, for once devoid of artifice~ echoed throughout the apartment. From Wordnik.com. [Break the Night]
A tragic, actressy smile, beginnings of a double chin, one knee drawn up as far as these leg irons will let her. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
It was one of those actressy gestures she'd copied from the classic black-and-white movies to which she was addicted. From Wordnik.com. ['Goldengrove'] Reference
My home is the form of Light, "burlesquing it now, in heavy Yiddish dialect, actressy and false," I wander all the Diaspora looking for strayed children. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
In contrast to her youthful appearance, the doll-like Ms. Lohan has an unusually mature, gravelly, actressy voice — the result, I suspect, of rocking one too many cigarettes. From Wordnik.com. [American Idylls! A Multi-City Celebri-Spree] Reference
An actressy-looking member of the audience conspicuously leaves her seat after about 10 minutes -- has she gone to join in on stage, as other spectators spectacularly do later on?. From Wordnik.com. [Rare Works Shown in Rothko Retrospective] Reference
There's a smaller sign that says "Hollywood/Western" and I know those are the intersecting streets, but it makes me think of a Hollywood western, and then I notice the black and white photographs of actressy models in the windows in the lower left corner and return to the rock-solid women waiting for the bus. From Wordnik.com. [Drive-by photography — L.A.] Reference
They were the most non-actressy tears I've ever seen on that show. From Wordnik.com. Reference
He said: "She is very clever, funny, eccentric, not actressy, and charming". From Wordnik.com. [dailyindia.com News Feed] Reference
He added: '' She's not at all actressy or Hollywood or starry, she's just a good egg and funny. ''. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
She has made them feel that way, and not out of actressy affectation, but because right now, it's her job. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
65 Val Eaton Griffith noted that she had become loud, intolerant and “actressy,” making peace in the household almost impossible. From Wordnik.com. [Storyteller] Reference
Strange thing about this article and interview ... is that there seems to be nothing else but the most annoying kind of present-day, bar-code hipster actressy Hollywoodishness about it. From Wordnik.com. [LA Weekly | Complete Issue] Reference
"We went on in this way till nearly four o'clock, when what should we hear coming along the road but a buggy, and who should be in that buggy but Gerard Malcolm with an actressy-looking girl!. From Wordnik.com. [The Motormaniacs] Reference
(This actressy instinct pays off later in a major way during an outer space "dance" sequence that's too beautiful for words. From Wordnik.com. [Film Experience Blog] Reference
Sort of horrid -- actressy. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Also, she’s no actressy as well. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Pattinson Interview REMEMBER ME – Collider.com] Reference
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