New Word A Day

Histrionic

Pronounced:
<Hiss-tree-on-ick>

Insincere emotional acting.   

My use: 
I am not being histrionic.  I really do like your tie!

Definition:
Affectedly dramatic; insincerely emotional; -- sometimes used in a bad sense.

Literature:
Tainted with false and histrionic feeling. --De Quincey.

Memory trick:
Histrionic
Hist (reminds of) = his story
ionic (reminds of) = bionic or robotic
his story is bionic

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