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
Some labeled her a grandstander, but her phrasemaking often helped her get her message across to the public.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2023
“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
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.
