manner of speaking

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manner of speaking
method of speaking, method of expression

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manner of speaking

Noun
1. your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech"
(synonym) speech, delivery
(hypernym) expressive style, style
(hyponym) address
(part-holonym) paralanguage, paralinguistic communication


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manner of speaking
Synonyms and related words:
adjectival phrase, affectation, asiaticism, clause, command of language, construction, device, euphuism, exaggeration, expression, expression of ideas, fashion, feeling for words, figurative language, figurativeness, figure, figure of speech, floridity, flourish, flower, flowery style, form of speech, grace of expression, grandiloquence, headed group, idiom, idiotism, image, imagery, inflation, literary style, locution, manner, mannerism, mode, mode of expression, nonliterality, nonliteralness, noun phrase, ornament, paragraph, peculiar expression, peculiarity, period, personal style, phrasal idiom, phrase, purple passage, rhetoric, sense of language, sentence, set phrase, standard phrase, strain, style, stylistic analysis, stylistics, syntactic structure, term, the grand style, the plain style, the sublime, timbre, tone, tone of voice, trick, trope, turn of expression, turn of phrase, usage, utterance, vein, verb complex, verb phrase, verbalism, voce, voice, voice qualifier, voice quality, way, way of saying, way of speaking, word-group
  

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manner of speaking
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