swaggering

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}]
    

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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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