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- adjective Tending to
swagger .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Even swaggery Sean P. Diddy Comb meekly told Craig, "You crack me up and the way you make people laugh's a blessing."
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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.
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Lots of swaggery suited and booted alpha males – fake!
en veille 2006
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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
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SULLIVAN: And all I can say is that if you're going to be that swaggery, you better get (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
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They are always lounging against the store windows or posts for support, bleary-eyed, dissipated, swaggery, staggery.
Prudence Says So Ethel Hueston
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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
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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
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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
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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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