Grandstanding

Quick meaning: Grandstanding is a noun meaning Dramatic or showy behavior intended to impress an audience or observers.

Meaning

Dramatic or showy behavior intended to impress an audience or observers.

More Meanings

1. present participle and gerund of grandstand

Example Sentences

For all his faults and grandstanding, however, Prescott genuinely cared - and his ambitious plans for tram schemes and railway extensions were stymied by lack of support from Downing Street.

Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of [Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer.

"We are tired of the shutdowns and the showdowns, the gridlock and the grandstanding," Klobuchar said in a speech to supporters. "Our nation must be governed not from chaos but from opportunity. Not by wallowing over what’s wrong, but by marching inexorably toward what’s right."

Word Forms

• grandstandings

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include posturing, spectacularism, self-aggrandizement, pomp, show-off, superspectacle.

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