flounce
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For fall, diaphanous tiers of 1970s flounce in almost angelically light hues defined the show’s aesthetic inside a brutalist warehouse space.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
Only a generation ago, some gardener-critics thought them lacking in elegance and refinement, too conspicuous in their flounce.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 15, 2022
Rose tends to flounce through every moment of her life as though giving a command performance.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2022
The Hollywood Reporter's Robyn Bahr agreed that "the flounce and fizziness of the original series are largely absent from this moodier and more self-serious one".
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2021
She smoothed her long skirt underneath her and sat down with a little flounce like a young girl.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
While she spoke animatedly from a green room couch, Day’s bubblegum pink off-shoulder tee and baggy white pants repeatedly flounced out and then resettled in new shapes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
A few months later, he quietly crawled back to Twitter and starting posting again, never acknowledging that he had flounced away in righteous indignation.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2021
He finally flounced out of the room with her looking daggers in his back.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2020
I would have said “no one’s pressuring me,” as I flounced along to Stringfellows if that’s where the party went.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 23, 2016
“The boy will have milk,” I said grandly and flounced around to the front door.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
Manuel Puig’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman” is perhaps best known in the U.S. as the film that won William Hurt an Oscar for flouncing around a prison cell in a kimono.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2023
Nemec recognizes this, to some degree, by only mentioning a central figure from the anime who is basically a flailing, flouncing mess of childish squeaks and quirks.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2021
"Rather than flouncing off", said Mr Hussain, the judge showed humour and "embraced" the fluffy intruder.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2021
The girl was timid with strangers, but exuberant at home – playing practical jokes, haranguing her parents with mock political speeches or flouncing around in her ballet costumes.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 2, 2016
Wagging his long tail, he ran over and started barking and growling at the flouncing monkeys.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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