Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of strutting; blustering; bravado.
- Strutting; blustering; boasting.
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- verb Present participle of
swagger .
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- adjective having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
- adjective flamboyantly adventurous
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Examples
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Good god Mike Skinner's affected cheeky chappy swaggering is annoying.
The Streets wants to tell you something... (Music (For Robots)) 2006
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(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".
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He came in swaggering, but, by George, he went out scratching!
Three Times and Out: A Canadian Boy's Experience in Germany Nellie L. McClung 1918
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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.
Think Progress » Harry Reid: No Good Military Options in Iran 2006
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He's swaggering, which is odd given how low is approval is.
10/17/2007 2007
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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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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.
A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850
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In addition to my impressions of the theatre and of Prague, now came those of the so-called swaggering undergraduate.
My Life — Volume 1 Richard Wagner 1848
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Ansari, who is best known as the swaggering Tom Haverford on NBC's CLOSE
Slate Magazine Jessica Grose 2011
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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.
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