| I am pretty sure I'm a drink-soaked popinjay myself, and formerly many things of a disreputable nature. |
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| Gillray so lovingly renders the popinjay, and we laugh so deeply at his pretensions, that the savagery of the social criticism, though devastating, is somewhat mitigated. |
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| The Englishman held a lofty finger in the air, and his flocculent hair blew upright in the sea breeze, giving him the look of an unfashionable popinjay. |
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| The new creation is Brüno, the Austrian fashionista with the big umlaut, played by Baron Cohen as a filleted, feather-cut popinjay. |
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| Or maybe it was just that the undergraduate popinjay who talked back to the dean had got old and established, and become rather deanlike, himself. |
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| During this period, he's defined by Twain's increasingly nasty accounts as an arrogant popinjay who came around in dishevelled clothing to cadge money off exasperated well-wishers. |
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| I was previously unaware that there was such a thing as a pretentious chimp, a chimp who claims to be just learning language yet still uses words such as haruspices, popinjay, pinguid, pithecine, pellucid, opprobriously. |
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| It's not just the rudeness of this reply that grates, it's the stupidity – as if a British cop would feel crushed by Howard's popinjay condescension. |
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