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

It was just such a swaggerer of a sea as that first one that Zip had dived into which did the trick, only, as the Flossie was going faster, the impact was somewhat more severe.

From Sea-Hounds by Freeman, Lewis R.

The street was busy with hurrying crowds, enlivened here and there by Temple Myrmidons—from the All-Father, from Bacchus, from Venus—even one from Pallas Athena herself, a broad-beamed swaggerer whom Forrester knew and disliked.

From Pagan Passions by Stanley, Robert

Dyce says that the context would seem to imply that the term is equivalent to “culter, swaggerer, bully.”

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger