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Example sentences for: preening

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The right thinks Beatty is a ridiculous, preening glory hound who would preach limousine-liberal ideas.
The actor sends up his own preening aloofness, and he has never been more emotionally exposed than when it dawns on him that his smug façade has been literally penetrated.
The rest of the time he's a preening cock, fond of quoting (without irony) a rapturous critic: "I'm meee -rac-ulous."
With Donald Trump preening and Jesse Ventura backpedaling, the Reform Party is enjoying its widest media exposure since Ross Perot's '92 run.
These idiots can never measure up to the city's most superheroic crime fighter, Captain Amazing (Greg Kinnear), a preening egotist who soars around on a jet pack trashing supervillains, his uniform emblazoned with product placements.