swaggerer

Example Sentences

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Anthony Howell's Trigorin, the destructive celebrity author, is unusually convincing: not a swaggerer or a smirker but a lethally hesitant presence.

From The Guardian • Nov. 18, 2012

A smarmy swaggerer in an orange suit, he proposes to take her off to the rich mean streets of New York.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dyce says that the context would seem to imply that the term is equivalent to “culter, swaggerer, bully.”

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger

The rash swaggerer Rupert, disregarding the counsels of a wiser head, had sallied forth from York, at the head of one of the largest armies ever mustered on the side of the king.

From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne

A Prussian is naturally a swaggerer; but then, unfortunately for other Germans, who are swaggerers too, the Prussian has something to boast of. 

From A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by Duthie, William