House of the Dragon vocabulary lesson: What does "comportment" mean?

On the latest episode of House of the Dragon, "The Red Sowing," young Oscar Tully arrives at the crumbling castle of Harrenhal with the Riverlords in tow. He's come at the summons of Daemon Targaryen, who's had difficulty raising an army of Rivermen because of all the scandelous stuff he's been up to.

Daemon teamed up with Willem Blackwood to bring to heel the Bracken family, which had declared for Daemon's enemy King Aegon II Targaryen, rather than for Daemon's wife Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen. Daemon gave his tacit permission to Willem to commit some war crimes against the Brackens, which Willem did eagerly. This offended the other Riverlords, who were agast at the burning of septs and the killing of women and children. The lot of them gathered at Harrenhal in this episode to hash things out.

Oscar Tully was as upset by Daemon's actions as anyone, saying he didn't approve of the king consort's "comportment." Simply said, that means he doesn't approve of Daemon's behavior or demeanor. Whether it's conspiring to commit war crimes against a Riverlands house or just being generally superior and braggadocious, Daemon rubs a lot of people the wrong way.

This is a pretty small bit of a trivia, but it seems that every episode House of the Dragon gives people a new word to puzzle over. Just last episode, Gwayne Hightower said that the Red Keep wasn't a salubrious" place for a young man to grow up, which means it's not a nice or healthy place. Before that, Rhaenyra mentioned the "foible" of a sword, which is the part of the blade between the middle and the tip, the weakest part of a sword. House of the Dragon is expanding people's vocabularies one word at a time.

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