Example Sentences

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They are rehearsing a short Tennessee Williams play whose feverishness reflects Eduardo’s approach to life — swashbuckling, peacockish, omnivorous.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2023

Dipset has always preferred flamboyance, and Cam’ron is perhaps the most peacockish rapper ever to emerge from New York.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2021

They didn’t possess his blend of peacockish flamboyance and vicious invective; the sense that he has plucked his personal style from a low-rent mafia flick.

From The Guardian • Jun. 14, 2018

Restraint is not a Louboutin hallmark, and so I’d brought my most peacockish friend — we’ll call him Hugh — in hopes of finding simpatico moments of flash.

From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2012

But for Paul DelVecchio, the peacockish housemate otherwise known as Pauly D, the party is just getting started.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2012