swaggering

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swaggering - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Swagger \Swag"ger\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Swaggered; p. pr. &
     vb. n. Swaggering.] [Freq. of swag.]
     1. To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a
        pompous, consequential manner.
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              A man who swaggers about London clubs.
                                                    --Beaconsfield.
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     2. To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or
        vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.
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              What a pleasant it is . . . to swagger at the bar!
                                                    --Arbuthnot.
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              To be great is not . . . to swagger at our footmen.
                                                    --Colier.
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swaggering - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  swaggering
      adj 1: having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of
             those one views as unworthy; "some economists are
             disdainful of their colleagues in other social
             disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners
             were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very
             sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my
             clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood
             than usual"- W.L.Shirer [syn: disdainful, haughty,
             imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful,
             sniffy, supercilious, swaggering]
      2: flamboyantly adventurous [syn: swaggering, swashbuckling]

swaggering - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "swaggering":
     aweless, barefaced, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous,
     bold, bold as brass, boldfaced, brassy, brazen, brazenfaced,
     bullying, hectoring, lost to shame, noisy, peacockish, peacocky,
     raging, ranting, raving, roistering, roisterous, rollicking,
     shameless, storming, strutting, swashbucklering, swashbuckling,
     swashing, tumultuous, unabashed, unblushing