showoff
Example Sentences
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Probably the best-known catkin showoff — beloved by bees, gardeners and flower arrangers — is the Japanese pink pussy willow Mt.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
“He thought he was doing his job. He wasn’t a showoff in that respect and wasn’t searching for hero worship.”
From Washington Times ● Feb. 7, 2021
FaceTiming with friends and family doesn’t work; she runs around in full showoff mode and can’t really interact via a screen that well.
From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2020
Well, fate, which never likes a showoff, for one thing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2019
Very probably, it was not part of the sofa vaudeville of a showoff but, rather, the private, exposed achievement of a young man who, at one time or another, might have tried shaving himself left-handed.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
