strutter
Example Sentences
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This ballet shows the bold side, the brainy city strutter in Robbins.
From Time Magazine Archive
To his friends General MacArthur is a dashing officer of the best Army type; to his critics he is an overdressed, supersensitive, ambitious strutter.
From Time Magazine Archive
Calvin Gray's ebullience, his dash, his magnificence of demeanor, could be nothing less than an affront to such a man; Nelson could see in him only a pompous braggart, an empty, arrogant strutter.
From Flowing Gold by Beach, Rex Ellingwood
He is, in brief, a hollow and incompetent creature, a strutter and poseur, a popinjay, a pretty one....
From Damn! A Book of Calumny by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)
So hale a strutter as Aladdin could not lack for bonamies.
From A Christmas Garland by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
