flouncing

present participle of flounce

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for flouncing
Verb
  • Backlash from economists Economists aren’t mincing their words about Antoni’s credentials.
    Tobias Burns, The Hill, 17 Aug. 2025
  • John Leguizamo is not mincing words in addressing Dean Cain‘s recent decision to join ICE.
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 9 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Portraying the ghost of Hamlet’s father at the play’s debut, his face and body covered in chalky white paint, his Shakespeare steps through the looking glass and becomes his own tragic player, strutting and fretting his hour upon the stage.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Anyier Anei is Ada, a newbie model from South Sudan by way of Kenya, wide-eyed and hungry as she’s tossed into a maelstrom of haughty men and clubgoing sisters in strutting.
    Richard Lawson, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Turner also faced a scandal hanging over his campaign.
    Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Advertisement Appointing a Prime Minister will also not resolve the instability hanging over the French parliament due to lack of an absolute majority, especially as the new leader would face the immediate task of passing a 2026 budget.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Who wants thousands of people traipsing through their neighborhoods?
    Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
  • This guy comes for a holiday and has 23 cars and a bike squad traipsing around, and the same again at his next port of call.
    Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • With his deathly pallor and Byronic charm, Stamp was perfect as the self-destructive, swaggering scoundrel who is haunted by visions of a spectral little girl.
    Christina Newland, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
  • On it, Sombr elevates the bedroom pop of his earlier work, giving it a more muscular, swaggering sound.
    Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The documentary, released in September 2025, chronicled the twisty true crime tale of a teenage couple who endured two years of cyberbullying, stalking and harassment from an unknown number.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
  • According to Today, Kendra was charged with two counts of stalking a minor, two counts of communicating with another to commit a crime and one count of obstruction of justice.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • RuPaul Charles is sashaying to the big screen with the first feature film from the RuPaul’s Drag Race universe.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
  • RuPaul’s Drag Race is sashaying to the big screen with a camp runaway train thriller as the MTV drag queen competition series continues to expand its storytelling universe.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The islands that became the Outer Banks fringing the North Carolina coast first appeared 15,000 years ago, when sea levels dropped and the nation’s shoreline migrated inward from the continental shelf, Young said.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025
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“Flouncing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flouncing. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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