histrionic
I
adjective
affected, aiming for effect, artificial, dramatic, embroidered, exaggerated, exhibitionistic, insincere, mannered, melodramatic, orotund, ostentatious, overacted, pretentious, scaenicus, self-conscious, showy, stagy, stilted, striving for effect, theatric, theatrical, unnatural
II
index
demonstrative (expressive of emotion), orotund
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006