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DOINGS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Manner of acting or controlling yourself
Synonyms:
behavior; behaviour; conduct; doings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("doings" is a kind of...):
activity (any specific behavior)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "doings"):
aggression (deliberately unfriendly behavior)
bohemianism (conduct characteristic of a bohemian)
dirty pool (conduct that is unfair or unethical or unsportsmanlike)
dirty tricks (underhand commercial or political behavior designed to discredit an opponent)
discourtesy; offence; offense; offensive activity (a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings or others)
easiness (the quality of being easy in behavior or style)
the way of the world; the ways of the world (the manner in which people typically behave or things typically happen)
Context examples:
Oh! it must be my uncle's doings!
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
From time to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It passes me, he cried, how all you lusty fellows can bide scratching your backs at home when there are such doings over the seas.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Oh, Teddy, such doings!" and Jo told Amy's wrongs with sisterly zeal.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
We jumped at the offer, for we were already sick of these bloodthirsty doings, and we saw that there would be worse before it was done.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Oh no! Far be it from me to arrogate to myself the attributes of the Deity. I am not even concerned in His especially spiritual doings.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Such doings discomposed Mr. Bennet exceedingly.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Who could doubt it who has heard of the Agamemnon? cried Lady Hamilton, and straightway she began to talk of the admiral and of his doings with such extravagance of praise and such a shower of compliments and of epithets, that my father and I did not know which way to look, feeling shame and sorrow for a man who was compelled to listen to such things said in his own presence.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Nobody loved plenty and hospitality more than herself; nobody more hated pitiful doings; the Parsonage, she believed, had never been wanting in comforts of any sort, had never borne a bad character in her time, but this was a way of going on that she could not understand.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
His defence was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he could not account in any way for the presence of the missing gentleman’s clothes.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
