Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a strutting manner; with a proud step; boastingly.
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- adverb With a
strutting motion. - adverb With
pompous pride .
Etymologies
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Examples
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By day her soul walked like a peacock on its green lawn, proudly, pompously, struttingly, because she was the mother of this gorgeous son.
The Judge Rebecca West 1937
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They slackened speed before they came to the wharf, which just here by the station jutted out in a grey bastion surmounted by the minatory finger of a derrick, and some of them climbed out and put round baskets full of shining fish upon their heads, and, walking struttingly to brake their heavy boots on the slippery mud, followed a wet track up to the cinderpath.
The Judge Rebecca West 1937
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Slowly and struttingly did the man of two virtues perform the whole pilgrimage of Oxford-street.
Pelham — Volume 07 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Slowly and struttingly did the man of two virtues perform the whole pilgrimage of Oxford-street.
Pelham — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Thus, again we have Alex the teen-gang leader of four swaggering cohorts in crime (garage overalls and ballet pumps the uniform here), bile-filled, struttingly contemptuous of authority and environment, parents and surroundings, anything other than themselves.
SpikeMagazine.com 2009
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Thus, again we have Alex the teen-gang leader of four swaggering cohorts in crime (garage overalls and ballet pumps the uniform here), bile-filled, struttingly contemptuous of authority and environment, parents and surroundings, anything other than themselves.
SpikeMagazine.com 2009
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Thus, again we have Alex the teen-gang leader of four swaggering cohorts in crime (garage overalls and ballet pumps the uniform here), bile-filled, struttingly contemptuous of authority and environment, parents and surroundings, anything other than themselves.
SpikeMagazine.com 2009
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Thus, again we have Alex the teen-gang leader of four swaggering cohorts in crime (garage overalls and ballet pumps the uniform here), bile-filled, struttingly contemptuous of authority and environment, parents and surroundings, anything other than themselves.
SpikeMagazine.com 2009
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