Flouncing

Her son recalls her flouncing around the family's Queens, N.Y., apartment with her robe hanging open, descending on his bed in the middle of the night when he was young, like "a road-company Barbara Stanwyck, but more frightening." ❋ Unknown (2008)

“I’ve seen Julian Assange in the last couple of days kind of flouncing around talking about this collaboration like the four of us were working all this together,” says Schmitt. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"flouncing" in the quick rustle with which she left the room. ❋ Sydney C. Grier (1900)

On the other hand, I think the chaplain could have made her point without flouncing out of the room. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These students were flouncing around their "final clubs" at Harvard not 20 years ago, when our own dear leaders were out-hooraying each other in mustard waistcoats and blue tails, but seven years ago, when their president, who was educated in a similar place, was launching a war on a faraway country of which he knew nothing. ❋ Christina Patterson (2010)

Nothing entices a hormonally imbalanced freshman like flouncing down a crowded hall laughing through a gaggle of friends with a flip of the pony-tail and nary a backwards glance. ❋ Will Durst (2011)

But the one person I noticed above all others was Violet, gliding across the floor with a spring in her step, the purple skirt flouncing, her mask down. ❋ Kelly Keaton (2011)

That was about the flouncing and frills; this is about the fighting and the fists. ❋ Unknown (2012)

When she wriggled suggestively in his lap, he scowled at her and said something in her ear that sent her flouncing away with a huff. ❋ Kresley Cole (2011)

Mr. Depp fulfills his flouncing quota, though his deadpan sometimes goes completely dead. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)

Now that the Texas Rangers are one win away from knocking the Yankees out of the American League Championship Series, some of these people are probably flouncing around your office blowing air kisses. ❋ Matthew Futterman (2010)

Bristol revealed a flouncing, pink dress with a white collar and belt and high-heeled saddle shoes. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)