posily

See pose.

posily (comparative more posily, superlative most posily)

1. (colloquial) In an ostentatious and pretentious manner.
   • 2003, Kate Cann, Hard Cash (page 140)

     The waiter posily slops a bit of wine into my glass, and I go through the cringe-making ritual of snorting into it and tasting a bit and saying fine, fine.

   • 2008 June 13, Alastair Macaulay, “The Cross-Country Currents in American Ballet”, in New York Times‎:

     The men keep staring posily out at the audience like disaffected male models; the male-female partner work is jarringly manipulative; the recurrent emphasis on multiple turns, multiple jumps, balances on point, is mere flash.