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
"Aha; thou swaggerer," said the fellow, "I hold thee for a rascal if thou make not good thy words forthwith as becomes an honourable nobleman."
From The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen
My own thought had just called him a swaggerer, and now he clapped the same phrase back at me.
From Montlivet by Alice Prescott Smith
Here the swaggerer tried to follow them, but the rear females turned and faced him and drove him off.
From The Position of Woman in Primitive Society A Study of the Matriarchy by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley
