lounge lizard

Example Sentences

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I used all kinds of lounge lizards, alley cats, and I made a substitute father figure in Papa Croc, who was this Don King character.

From New York Times

At 85, he retains, as Daphne Merkin once wrote in The New York Times, a louche glamour, “like a lounge lizard who reads Flaubert.”

From New York Times

Don’t fall for the slick, dandified cake eater — the unpolished gold of a real man is worth more than the gloss of a lounge lizard.

From Washington Post

Wearing a crisp white shirt, skinny black tie and tailored black suit, he speaks with the languid, affected delivery of a practiced lounge lizard.

From New York Times

Yes, we want natural engagement with its sense, and no, we don’t need to have it crooned at us as if it were written for lounge lizards.

From New York Times