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

Michael, being no swaggerer, laughed, and passed off the honours with a jest.

From A Blot on the Scutcheon by Knowles, Mabel Winifred

Siegfried shouts: "Look out, bellower, the swaggerer comes!" and, Nothung in hand, leaps to the assault.

From The Wagnerian Romances by Brownell, Gertrude Hall

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