swaggerer
Example Sentences
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Anthony Howell's Trigorin, the destructive celebrity author, is unusually convincing: not a swaggerer or a smirker but a lethally hesitant presence.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 18, 2012
A smarmy swaggerer in an orange suit, he proposes to take her off to the rich mean streets of New York.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was alone as he strolled on the platform—a youth well-groomed and well-supplied, but for once in his life not a swaggerer, though the chance to swagger was unique.
From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
Thorgils was a man great and goodly of body, the greatest swaggerer, and was spoken of as one of no fairness in dealings with men.
From Laxdæla Saga Translated from the Icelandic by Muriel A.C. Press
Dyce says that the context would seem to imply that the term is equivalent to “culter, swaggerer, bully.”
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
