swaggerer

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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

I trust," he hazarded, "that you will not condemn me for a swaggerer, if I lay claim to share with you a singularity.

From The Lady Paramount by Harland, Henry

The manner in which Speidel-R�ttmann made known his son's extraordinary feat of strength shows his vainglorious, boasting disposition: he is far from being a bad man, only a swaggerer of the first class.

From Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. I. by Auerbach, Berthold

The man was evidently a sort of character, a swaggerer who wished to pass for a gentleman and a soldier, albeit his elbows were ragged, and his whole dress patched and furbished up.

From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry