coxcomb
noun
a conceited, foolish dandy; pretentious fop.
coxcombical
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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 English literary criticism by Various
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
Of all the vain assumptions of these coxcombical times, that which arrogates the pre-eminence in the true science of gardening is the vainest.
From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
The diffusion of sound classical learning was much needed to mitigate the coxcombical pretensions of the half-educated, and the vulgar coarseness of the uneducated.
From Rides on Railways by Samuel Sidney
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 John Benwell
