strut
verb (used without object)
to walk with a vain, pompous bearing, as with head erect and chest thrown out, as if expecting to impress observers.
Example Sentences
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In Rogers’s case, it included her struttingly confident performance at Coachella this past spring.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2022
The over-all effect is a little like reading the e-mails sent by “Jake”: Anna, the narrator, feels subordinate to Mallory’s struttingly insistent voice.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019
By day her soul walked like a peacock on its green lawn, proudly, pompously, struttingly, because she was the mother of this gorgeous son.
From The Judge by Rebecca West
