Portraying is valid Scrabble Word

Is portraying a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is portraying valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

10 letters word
16 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for PORTRAYING in dictionary:

VERB:

PORTRAY, to paint or draw the likeness of, also POURTRAY
depict (someone or something) in a work of art or literature
describe (someone or something) in a particular way
(of an actor) play the part of (someone) in a film or play

NOUN:

a representation by picture or portraiture

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to represent pictorially

Words related to PORTRAYING

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How to use PORTRAYING in a sentence

Ladies are not good hands in painting heroes, nor gentlemen always equal to the portraying of heroines.
Naturally, with such a disposition, he is entirely incapable of portraying a true woman.
Either he interpreted it as portraying cowardice, or else he deemed that he had his opponent at his mercy.
All this worked on the young poet, and at eight or nine years old he wrote a short description of twelve pictures, portraying the history of Joseph.
The range within which her studies are made is a wide one, however, and within it she has shown herself the master of human motives and a consummate artist in portraying the soul.
In portraying the trust, childlike and simple, of an old woman, and in endeavoring to realize the poetic elements of that trust and simplicity, she was very effective.
So far as the book has an historical purpose it is that of describing the general life of the time rather than that of portraying Savonarola.
He bears, according to the customary wont of artists while portraying Moses, two horns upon the head, not far removed from the summit of the brows.
He had not felt that hesitation once when portraying the possibilities of the voyage to another.
I am portraying this hardy companion as I really knew him.

In portraying its heroes, the Bible does not attempt any gloss.
They can scarcely be too improbable for him, portraying, as they do, his belief in his own prowess.
It is a significant fact that, in portraying the Greek of his time, Homer has given us also the ideal Greek and the Greek ideals.
There is little scenery-painting, few wayside reflections, and no attempt at portraying the comic side of human nature, or even the ordinary gayety of domestic life.
Such individuals find their chief delight in portraying, in vivid details, the terrific sufferings which they have had to endure.
As we have seen in the portrait of the Duke of Lennox, the painter was nowhere more successful than in portraying the young courtier.
When there are little children in the cast, their belief in Santa Claus must not be disturbed and the adult portraying the character need not attend the general rehearsals.
Stories portraying with delightful humor and pathos a quaint people in a sleepy old town.
They are quite as necessary as long ones, and in some cases, such as the portraying of strong emotion, are more effective.
The most important use of description in connection with narration is that of portraying character.
The devout painter, kneeling before his easel, addressed himself to the task of portraying those heavenly lineaments which had visited him perhaps in dreams.
She has a genius for portraying this animal, and understands its anatomy as few painters have done.
He did not want to spoil her by portraying her as a half-caste in his picture.
In portraying this sentiment the hand must not be carried to the heart.
Most people are in the habit of portraying the Empress Frederick as a woman embittered and soured by disappointment.
I have a note from Whistler written to Henry at a later date which refers to the picture, and suggests portraying him in all his characters.
There is a photograph in existence portraying Hancock and his division generals as they appeared during that terrible campaign.
Mazzini was never so eloquent as when portraying the glories of the free Rome that was to be recognized, indeed, as the mother of us all.

Similar words containing PORTRAY without suffix ing

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