peacocky

Example Sentences

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“They’re both at their most peacocky and glamorous when they fall in love, and they grow together as a couple,” the costume designer adds.

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

And yet it was asked, more than once last Thursday, at the Frick Collection Young Fellows Ball, a peacocky gala on the early spring social calendar.

From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2022

I disliked their peacocky sheen and illegible surfaces.

From Washington Post • Jul. 7, 2021

And perhaps Sandal thought the hyperbole a compliment; for he smiled a little, and walked away, with what his wife privately called "a peacocky air," saying something about "Greek meeting Greek" as he did so.

From The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston