4 example sentences using coxcomb.
Coxcomb used in a sentence
Coxcomb in a sentence as a noun
I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.
These qualities, if he had been a man of sense and virtue, would scarcely of themselves have sufficed to make him conspicuous; but, because he was a dunce, a parasite, and a coxcomb, they have made him immortal.
He sued a journalist for libel who had written that he "never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public’s face"—a pretty good line in its own right, but unfortunately for the journalist, he was up against a wit with superpowers.
Ruskin had said this about Whistler: I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; \n but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas \n for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.\n\nSo Whistler sued for defamation and was examined by Ruskin's lawyer: Holker: Did it take you much time to paint the Nocturne in Black and Gold?