swagger
verb (used without object)
to walk or strut with a defiant or insolent air.
swaggerer
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a word derived from
swagger.
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 Charles Lamb
I trust," he hazarded, "that you will not condemn me for a swaggerer, if I lay claim to share with you a singularity.
From The Lady Paramount by Henry Harland
"Is n't he what Quackinboss would call a 'ternal swaggerer, May?" cried Agincourt.
From One Of Them by Charles James Lever
