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Examples
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He didn't register strongly enough in his earlier appearances to merit a front-row seat at the finale — a problem compounded by the revelation that all his show-offy science crimes were merely a cry for Bell's attention.
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Sometimes, Yetta thought she and Bella should just kick Jane out, send her back to her pretty clothes and her show-offy mansion, where she belonged.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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Sometimes, Yetta thought she and Bella should just kick Jane out, send her back to her pretty clothes and her show-offy mansion, where she belonged.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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Sometimes, Yetta thought she and Bella should just kick Jane out, send her back to her pretty clothes and her show-offy mansion, where she belonged.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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"There are plenty who are more obviously show-offy than I am, but that is what is so creepy about my particular brand of exhibitionism—I mask it in a cloak of affable modesty and touching false diffidence."
True Tales of a Happy Hypocrite Alexandra Mullen 2012
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But instead of wondering how a man so buttoned-down summoned such lyricism, she buries the letter in her show-offy imitation of an F.
Standing Pat (On Her Head) Frank Gannon 2011
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I understood what she was saying because I heard the word marriage please say that with a heavy, show-offy, perfect French accent, maree-auge as she pointed at her adult son, and then back to me.
One For The Table: Bread and Chocolate One For The Table 2011
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With any amount of luck or grace I will not wipe out an entire tour group of show-offy ten-year-olds.
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I understood what she was saying because I heard the word marriage please say that with a heavy, show-offy, perfect French accent, maree-auge as she pointed at her adult son, and then back to me.
One For The Table: Bread and Chocolate One For The Table 2011
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Sometimes, Yetta thought she and Bella should just kick Jane out, send her back to her pretty clothes and her show-offy mansion, where she belonged.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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