flounce

Only a generation ago, some gardener-critics thought them lacking in elegance and refinement, too conspicuous in their flounce.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 15, 2022

She’s wearing the same flounce garment seen in the image of Enheduanna on the disk found in 1927, and has the same aquiline features.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2022

The Hollywood Reporter's Robyn Bahr agreed that "the flounce and fizziness of the original series are largely absent from this moodier and more self-serious one".

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2021

In the Bourse de la Commence, a finely tailored business-like jacket filed by above a gray skirt with a flounce cut on the bias.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2021

I flounce downstairs, half spoiling for a fight.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

The self-confident Mr Lindner overplayed his hand four years ago, and was accused of shirking responsibility when he flounced out of coalition talks.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2021

A few months later, he quietly crawled back to Twitter and starting posting again, never acknowledging that he had flounced away in righteous indignation.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2021

He finally flounced out of the room with her looking daggers in his back.

From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2020

Also in the mix were statement-making tulle dressing gowns that flounced and bounced with ostrich or marabou feathers, custom made by L.A. designer Catherine D’Lish.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2017

The big green M on Stargirl’s white sweater flounced as she spun and leaped with the other cheerleaders.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

Manuel Puig’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman” is perhaps best known in the U.S. as the film that won William Hurt an Oscar for flouncing around a prison cell in a kimono.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2023

Because unlike Giselle, the unemployed, recently animated naïf flouncing around Robert’s prewar apartment, Nancy, a successful fashion designer, wants things.

From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2020

The girl was timid with strangers, but exuberant at home – playing practical jokes, haranguing her parents with mock political speeches or flouncing around in her ballet costumes.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 2, 2016

To the couple's relief, the woman eventually backed down, merely flouncing out with the guitar before disappearing in a blue Jaguar.

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2013

There was no pivotal moment of creative difference, no storming or flouncing out.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan