grandstander
Example Sentences
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He deflected Trump’s jabs by joking he was at least “second rate” as a grandstander.
From Seattle Times • May 16, 2024
“He is not a grandstander, which the bureau needs because we shouldn’t know who the director of the FBI is.”
From Washington Times • Sep. 1, 2019
One final note about Megan Rapinoe and the real reason I dislike her: She’s a grandstander.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2019
He is the offstage presence, the opposite of a grandstander, even with the report having been made published.
From Fox News • May 2, 2019
Perhaps Gibson was a grandstander, a glory seeker, after all—but was he to be blamed if what he sought above all else was the admiration of one like Consuello?
From Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles by Richardson, James H.
