sashay

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Does he kind of sashay his pointy tale when he walks?

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  1. intransitive verb To walk or proceed, especially in an easy or casual manner.
  2. intransitive verb To strut or flounce in a showy manner: sashaying around the dinner party in his fancy new clothes.
  3. intransitive verb To perform the chassé in dancing.

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  • You plant a dismissive kiss on the woman's papery brow and weave your way back to the door The nearby glass-faced elevator drops you into the mazelike basement of the Wrong-Way, Used-Adult Orphanage, where you sashay, as if by instinct, to the Chantry. —  Asimov'sSF,July2008
  • There was a rough-and-tumble mixture of sequins with raincoats and an unseemly fan-girl mentality present on the red carpet sashay (okay, that might've been me), as the cast and local mucky-mucks sashayed down the red carpet. —  Portland Mercury
  • You have to look gorgeous in it, be able to dance in it, and wave like a beauty queen while sashay-ing around in it. —  Right Pundits
  • So, I selected AMEX to see if it metamorphosed to 15 digits which is of round the digit on a AMEX dependability sashay - count. —  London Indymedia Features
  • It's close to midnight, and something evil's lurking in the dark, sashay, sashay, ball change —  Evil Beet Gossip
 

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