chameleonize

Example Sentences

• "King by your leaue, for in your kingſhippe I muſt leaue you, and repeate how from white to redde you camelionized."
• "I care nothing for the plaudits of the populace. I’m ambitious, in a way; but when that way requires me to leave the people—the things—that I love, then ambition chameleonizes and I become ambitious antithetically."
• "One of the things I love about my bar is its ability to chameleonize from a rock-and-roll dive bar to a wine geek tasting post to an annoyingly elitist art world clubhouse to a fashion model/coke whore hang to a gay bar to a bridge-and-tunnel frat party, sometimes incorporating three such incarnations in a night."
• "The new socialists seemed to be just tuning in, uttering empty words, doing as the others did, following them, not sticking out, “chameleonizing” to the environment and to a socialist way of life."
• "1878, “Homœopathy and Exclusiveness,” Letter to the editor, Medical Record, 28 September, 1878, p. 257, Such a difference of opinion is passed over with a shrug of the shoulder, for some “regulars” practise empirically (clinically), and others scientifically. The “majority” and “Medical Ethics” contend that every practitioner shall sail under the colors he or she may select, but not use one which may be chameleonized to suit the individual notions and prejudices of the public at large."
• "1897, Edward Franklin Buchner, A Study of Kant’s Psychology with Reference to The Critical Philosophy, Psychological Review, New York: Macmillan, Monograph Supplement, No. 4, January, 1897, Chapter 2, p. 14, The dogmatism of youth was perfected in the criticism of manhood, and revealed in the ethical exotericism of old age. Yet, with all the multifarious content of his thinking, and the chameleonized forms it was led to assume, there runs through it all a common trait."