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 is just such a swaggerer as contemporaries have described old Ben to be.

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles

Indeed it seemed to elevate my jealousy into an obligation of chivalry, merely to remember that sallow-faced swaggerer that said he loved her.

From Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Wallis, Arthur F.

He was a swaggerer and behaved as badly as any paladin, but he was not a buffo. 

From Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions by Jones, Henry Festing