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单词 attention-seeking
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Definition of attention-seeking in English:

attention-seeking

adjective
  • Attempting to attract the attention of other people, typically by disruptive or excessively extrovert behaviour.

    children who are homesick may engage in attention-seeking behaviour
    Example sentencesExamples
    • However, I should not pay much attention to either the attention seeking people on there or the comments posted on the thread all about me.
    • I look forward to your next attention seeking move.
    • Putting your company's name in lowercase is an even more pathetic attention-seeking device.
    • Barely turned three, she seemed more akin to her craven, attention-seeking mother than to her newborn brother.
    • No wonder we have grown impatient at the attention-seeking antics of the privileged.
    • The very delicacy of their situation is what provokes the attention-seeking behaviour.
    • At her Old Bailey trial, Andrews was presented in evidence as "attention-seeking and manipulative in her relationships," he said.
    • Knowing that these thoughts are there is an important first stage in overcoming attention-seeking behaviour.
    • That's what these people are doing - they're pounding the table in desperate attention-seeking attempts to feel superior.
    • There will be few flashy signs or attention-seeking gestures.
    • This seems like an unnecessary attention-seeking tactic, making sure we notice a particularly sleazy line.
    • Admittedly, there wasn't the dead weight of the attention-seeking kid to exacerbate matters.
    • Director Kramer avoids any attention-seeking camera work, with only one particular sequence standing out.
    • I think the main motive for the opposition is just the usual Leftist attention-seeking, however.
    • Thus a great hue and cry was launched in the Pagan public by attention-seeking hack writers over a bit of bibliographic honesty.
    • This can be difficult to manage - there may be attention seeking behaviour.
    • A collection of attention seeking performers gathers in Edinburgh to strut their stuff at the Fringe Festival.
    • In a nutshell, ten attention-seeking nobodies spend what seems like six months in a house, with one being voted out each week.
    • There are high-performance sports cars that can be driven around town without feeling like you are an attention-seeking pillock.
    • You have this attention-seeking heiress without the sense God gave rabbits, desperately looking to become famous.
    Synonyms
    troublemaking, troublesome, unruly, rowdy, disorderly, undisciplined, riotous, wild, turbulent

Derivatives

  • attention-seeker

  • noun
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