Words similar to preening

Example sentences for: preening

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Chatty doesn't have to mean writers should be allowed to make fools of themselves through excessive preening.
The rest of the time he's a preening cock, fond of quoting (without irony) a rapturous critic: "I'm meee -rac-ulous."
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.
Nor is Washington charmed by the preening quirkiness of the tech culture.
His volcanic rages don't have the put-on quality of post- Raging Bull Robert De Niro or the preening self-consciousness of Al Pacino; nor is he a simple-minded bully boy, like Harvey Keitel.