popinjay

Example Sentences

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The 1980s brought with them a new social type, a sub-Nietzschean popinjay we’ll call Finance Guy.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2020

He flamboyantly inhabited his martial persona, a popinjay with long golden curls and a specially commissioned uniform, “a black velvet suit and enough gold braid to cover it.”

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2018

To the hero-happy public he was a guerrilla genius, the Galahad of World War I. To his military superiors he was a popinjay.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was, however, some consolation, for the priestly popinjay had made an enemy of Cardinal Richelieu by walking ahead of him during a religious procession.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Shoot the popinjay,” said Robb, giving than to the Wart He looked and saw * popinjay five-score paces away.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White