Meaning of coxcombical | Babel Free

Definitions

Like, or in the style of, a coxcomb.

Examples

“The majority of these idlers were impudent-looking braggarts, who, with jaunty air and coxcombical show of superiority, endeavoured to enforce their own opinions, and to silence those of every one else.”

“Marlow is a coxcombical prig, that is the truth on't; and if a man will expose himself, why, he must even take what follows.”

“Of Wordsworth's demeanour and physical presence, De Quincey's account, silly, coxcombical, and vulgar, is the worst; Carlyle's, as might be expected from his magical gift of portraiture, is the best.”

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