coxcombical
- a word derived from coxcomb.
Example Sentences
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We dare not contemplate an Atlantis, a scheme, out of which our coxcombical moral sense is for a little transitory ease excluded.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Lamb, Charles
This last article, indeed, was an appendage of 1802, but all the rest presented a genuine portrait of an indigent and coxcombical journeyman tailor.
From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Cook, Dutton
The life of an officer is not now a life of parade, of coxcombical, or of profligate idleness—but of active service, of continual hardship and danger.
From The Absentee by Edgeworth, Maria
The majority of these idlers were impudent-looking braggarts, who, with jaunty air and coxcombical show of superiority, endeavoured to enforce their own opinions, and to silence those of every one else.
From An Englishman's Travels in America His Observations of Life and Manners in the Free and Slave States by Benwell, John
A coxcombical young lord came up to me one evening after the Prince had taken his leave, and said, 'Mr. Landor, how can you talk to that fool, Prince Napoleon?'
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 by Various
