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

Siegfried shouts: "Look out, bellower, the swaggerer comes!" and, Nothung in hand, leaps to the assault.

From The Wagnerian Romances by Brownell, Gertrude Hall

Indeed it seemed to elevate my jealousy into an obligation of chivalry, merely to remember that sallow-faced swaggerer that said he loved her.

From Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Wallis, Arthur F.

He was a swaggerer and behaved as badly as any paladin, but he was not a buffo. 

From Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions by Jones, Henry Festing