How To Use Show-off In A Sentence
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Show-off teenage boys with their own skates sped about the rink, skidding and skiting between more unsteady punters.
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But let's say you're one step above a putz or a show-off.
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How could anyone fail to conclude that compared with Riemenschneider, Rodin is a cloddish show-off?
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They seem to be natural born show-offs who've got lots of face and front, but often no talent.
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First, stop selling your cars to show-offs and delinquents.
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We've been shining our behinds with show-off stuff so long that the meat and potatoes of the magazine is backed up.
DOWNTOWN
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It was like DJing a late night at an exchange, except better because the crowd were relaxed and friendly (rather than hyped and kind of cliquey/show-offy), the organisers were mellow and professional and the sound system was nice.
Dogpossum
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In contrast, a pedant is a supercilious show-off who drops references to Sophocles and masks his shallowness by using words like “fulgent” and “supercilious.”
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These three are a bunch of show-offs, so any mere breaststroker will quickly find themselves sinking.
Car review: Citroën DS3
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In contrast, a pedant is a supercilious show-off who drops references to Sophocles and masks his shallowness by using words like “fulgent” and “supercilious.”
Amen to intellectualism!
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Some reviewers have recoiled in horror from the film, denouncing him as a misogynist, a fake, a show-off, an incompetent director, and worse.
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Whatever the reason, the ceremonial uniforms were gorgeous, and Tristan wore his with the confidence of one born to show-off.
TREASON KEEP
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Those who suffer from narcissism become self-absorbed or chronic show-offs.
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As it turns out, Jamie's friends don't head for the nearest chippy when they hear that they are to be on telly, for they are all big fat show-offs.
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And he was going to give a rocket to Show-Off, whose performance on the publicity front had been absolutely dismal.
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Originally a ‘buck’ was a dandy, a pretentious, overdressed show-off of a man.
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Peacocks and nightingales are aesthetic show-offs.
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And as my gran used to say, no one likes a show-off.
The Sun
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For example, I'm something of a natural-born show-off (hadn't you guessed?)
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She is one of those show-off, marathon-running types of people… oops!
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Jimena's such a show-off, she always wants to be the centre of attention.
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You also have a strong desire to perform in front of others, perhaps just as a show-off or as an actor or performer in games or other situations that demonstrate your talents.
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And then there is the last-born: a show-off who enjoys the limelight; a charming rebel, often the family clown, creative, with a good sense of humour, a risk-taker.
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Whatever the reason, the ceremonial uniforms were gorgeous, and Tristan wore his with the confidence of one born to show-off.
TREASON KEEP
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They started out as nature's hyperactive show-offs, but now they're levitating and vibrating with excitement, tumescent with joy and hormones.
Times, Sunday Times
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Let's show the world that we can be lucid and enthusiastic explainers of recondite ideas, not merely the flamboyant show-offs that unfair stereotypes so often paint us to be.
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Maybe it is difficult to imagine these guys as nice chaps when your machismo immediately assumes they'll be natural born show-offs.
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we all knew her as a big show-off
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Whatever the reason, the ceremonial uniforms were gorgeous, and Tristan wore his with the confidence of one born to show-off.
TREASON KEEP
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Immediately after my Tweet and the froth-flecked reverberations its flight inspired, I felt more than twinges of regret that I had roused the beasts which I have sought for years to placate through the uttering of low amusements: I felt genuine anxiety that their ire was directed at me, a Show-off who depends on goodwill to ensure the making of a living which in this economy is no easy feat.
Steven Weber: Listen to the Mocking Bird
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Those who suffer from narcissism become self-absorbed or chronic show-offs.
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The person with a bloated ego is a show-off who thinks the world of himself.
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Barnes's journalistic reputation is founded on his relaxed, anecdotal style, which is never entirely devoid of swank, clatter and show-off puns.
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Mr. Naipaul's "picong" remarks range from silly putdowns -- such as when he said of one of Queen Elizabeth's grandchildren that she had the face of a criminal -- to snippy but revelatory show-off remarks, like his comment that the fatwa against Salman Rushdie for "The Satanic Verses" was an extreme form of literary criticism.
The Man Behind the Man of Letters
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After all, he is the ultimate show-off, who personifies lightweight showbiz and everything it represents.
Times, Sunday Times