histrionics

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Exaggerated, overemotional behaviour, especially when calculated to elicit a response; melodramatics

I’m tired of Mary’s histrionics.

{i} theatrical performance; acting; overly dramatic or exaggerated speech or actions
disapproval If you disapprove of someone's dramatic and exaggerated behaviour, you can describe it as histrionics. When I explained everything to my mum and dad, there were no histrionics. very loud and emotional behaviour that is intended to get sympathy and attention - used to show disapproval (histrionicus, from histrio )
a deliberate display of emotion for effect
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Excessively dramatic or emotional
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{a} befitting a stage or players, arch
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characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often affected; "histrionic gestures"; "an attitude of melodramatic despair"; "a theatrical pose"
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Of, or relating to actors or acting
histrionic
characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often affected; "histrionic gestures"; "an attitude of melodramatic despair"; "a theatrical pose
histrionic
Of or relating to the stage or a stageplayer; befitting a theatre; theatrical; sometimes in a bad sense
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disapproval If you refer to someone's behaviour as histrionic, you are critical of it because it is very dramatic, exaggerated, and insincere. Dorothea let out a histrionic groan
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{s} dramatic, theatrical; of or pertaining to theater; of or pertaining to acting or actors
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