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Trying to impress improperly? Pardon me!
Answer for the clue "Trying to impress improperly? Pardon me! ", 8 letters:
namedrop
Alternative clues for the word namedrop
- Say "When I was with my good friend Barack last week ...," e.g
- Casually mention famous people you know
- Attempt to impress, in a way
- Mention one's VIP pals
- Try to impress, in a way
- Make a personal connection?
- Try to make an impression, in a way
- Mention a connection, perhaps
- Try to impress at a party, say
Word definitions for namedrop in dictionaries
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Word definitions in WordNet
v. refer to people that one assumes one's interlocutors admire in order to try to impress them
Usage examples of namedrop.
He brought, too, dishes made by his own hand, fish curries, raitas, sivayyan, khir, and doled out, along with the edibles, namedropping accounts of celebrity dinner parties: how Pavarotti had loved Whisky's lassi, and O but that poor James Mason had just adored his spicy prawns.
She's loud, she drinks too much, she's a fucking pain in the ass at a dinner table: namedropping, interrupting, belittling him in front of his friends, cutting the other women who try to show some warmth to the guy because they're embarrassed for him, interrupting everyone, rearranging the environment to suit herself ("I have to sit here, not there" .