swaggerer

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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

Here the swaggerer tried to follow them, but the rear females turned and faced him and drove him off.

From The Position of Woman in Primitive Society A Study of the Matriarchy by Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)

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 Press, Muriel A.C.

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