peacocky

Example Sentences

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“We started with him being more peacocky, so full of himself and a big contrast to what was going on in the rest of Russia,” Perry says.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2024

It was fun to put them in the book in their peacocky '70s incarnation where they really were the brightest stars in journalism.

From Salon • Sep. 9, 2023

It’s a sign of how peacocky the annual event has become.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2021

I disliked their peacocky sheen and illegible surfaces.

From Washington Post • Jul. 7, 2021

You fancy, perhaps, that there is a severe sense of duty mixed with these peacocky motives?

From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John