showing-off in the PONS Dictionary

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
There are cases of blatant showing-off.
qz.com
And there was some operatic showing-off in the last movement's cadenza, when the sisters prolonged their final trill to amusingly outrageous length.
www.telegraph.co.uk
There's a showing-off element to it, yes, but it's a geeky thing too.
www.telegraph.co.uk
Nowadays the hyper-rich are torn between concealment and showing-off.
www.ft.com
The blatant showing-off seen in drag shows comes to mind here.
qz.com
It's a level up from last year's approach: showing-off app-based animations through holes in your clothes.
gizmodo.com
You will arrive at the showing-off belching stage, and the "look at this, it's like dough" (while gripping and waggling your spare tyre), moment.
www.telegraph.co.uk
But summer, it appears, is not for having fun when it comes to books; rather, for literary showing-off.
www.telegraph.co.uk
I suspect that he was employing the standard tactic of the shy man: self-deprecation as a sly form of showing-off.
www.telegraph.co.uk
I hadn't really connected the showing-off element of the bike riding to what they might be like in person before, but it kind of made sense.
www.vice.com

Would you like to add some words, phrases or translations?

Just let us know. We look forward to hearing from you.

Look up "showing-off" in other languages


Choose your language Deutsch | български | English | Français | Italiano | Polski | Русский