swaggering
IPA: swˈægɝɪŋ
noun
- Boastful, blustering behaviour.
adjective
- Boastful, proud, self-confident.
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Examples of "swaggering" in Sentences
- He's swaggering, which is odd given how low is approval is.
- He came in swaggering, but, by George, he went out scratching!
- Good god Mike Skinner's affected cheeky chappy swaggering is annoying.
- Ansari, who is best known as the swaggering Tom Haverford on NBC's CLOSE
- In addition to my impressions of the theatre and of Prague, now came those of the so-called swaggering undergraduate.
- (Laughter) All the little Italian generals came in swaggering around, and finally came Count Ciano looking very much like Prince Danilo of the "Merry Widow".
- The same bed-wetting Dem Senator – Harry Reid – who accused Bush of swaggering is swaggering about how the President isn’t doing enough to lead the way on Iran.
- A half-admiring, half-nervous public quickly dubbed his swaggering and very personal style of government the Dadis Show, which was the name of a television programme in which the captain himself questioned and berated miscreants.
- Middle-aged merchants have a great fancy for such horses; their action recalls the swaggering gait of a smart waiter; they do well in single harness for an after-dinner drive; with mincing paces and curved neck they zealously draw a clumsy droshky laden with an overfed coachman, a depressed, dyspeptic merchant, and his lymphatic wife, in a blue silk mantle, with a lilac handkerchief over her head.
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