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  • adjective Tending to swagger.

Etymologies

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swagger +‎ -y

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Examples

  • Even swaggery Sean P. Diddy Comb meekly told Craig, "You crack me up and the way you make people laugh's a blessing."

    Susan Braudy: The Late Night Wars: Craig Ferguson 2009

  • For one thing, it was unclear whether this workman had ever performed in a pornographic film, or whether the nickname only asserted the analogy between such performers and this guy with the slightly shaggy, swaggery demeanor.

    Fire Island, This Time 2008

  • Lots of swaggery suited and booted alpha males – fake!

    en veille 2006

  • Tis sad to see this same arrogance and swaggery put into castigating gentlemen such as yourself.

    "Measure 'R' Goes Down In Flames" (WHY IT WAS REMOVED: by ZD, & Rocky Delgadillo) 2006

  • SULLIVAN: And all I can say is that if you're going to be that swaggery, you better get (UNINTELLIGIBLE).

    CNN Transcript Sep 19, 2004 2004

  • They are always lounging against the store windows or posts for support, bleary-eyed, dissipated, swaggery, staggery.

    Prudence Says So Ethel Hueston

  • She swings in swaggery, gives Mr. Robert the college hick greetin ', and when I'm introduced to her treats me to a grip that I felt the tingle of for half an hour.

    Torchy, Private Sec. Sewell Ford 1907

  • Ballew also culled this particularly piquant passage from the Texas decision, which sounded like it could have been written by a cowboy poet, or perhaps Rick Perry, in one of his more swaggery, and less tongue-tied, moments: A good deal of vegetation in Texas stings, sticks or stinks.

    News - latimes.com 2011

  • The restraint plea is hardly a new one, but there are better reasons than ever to reconsider the swaggery style of Pinot.

    SFGate: Top News Stories Jon Bonné 2010

  • Likewise his swaggery "bring 'em on" that July, referring to attacks on American soldiers in

    NYT > Home Page By MICHAEL KINSLEY 2010

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