swaggering
Word-form referencesswagger
Adjective
Boastful, proud, self-confident.
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Noun
Boastful, blustering behaviour.
Usage- Countable
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Since the return of the redoubtable head of the French people to Paris, I have been no less amused by his ill-digested boastings and swaggerings, than I was before delighted by the complete discomfiture of his ambitious plans.
Adjective
having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
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some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines
haughty aristocrats
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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
flamboyantly adventurous
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