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How to pronounce swaggering in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms swashbuckling
Type Words
Synonyms disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious


a more swaggering mood than usual.

Examples of swaggering

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It's a funny message, too, coming from such a swaggering behemoth of technology.
From the dispatch.com
The Chrysler of yore was a swaggering place-agile and unafraid of taking chances.
From the businessweek.com
The list included Woods, making a fist-pumping, swaggering charge up the board.
From the sacbee.com
The floor always belonged to Dundee, neat, tidy and tiny, but still swaggering.
From the independent.co.uk
Here, the insistent rhythm-guitar lick and swaggering beat drive the song home.
From the cnn.com
This must seem odd those who think of Bush strictly as a swaggering Texas oilman.
From the theatlantic.com
Connally's swaggering self-assurance was Nixon's Walter Mitty image of himself.
From the time.com
It's called Hoos'gow day, and it's a celebration of noisy, swaggering western fun.
From the ocregister.com
The long-awaited return of Will Ferrell as swaggering newscaster Ron Burgundy.
From the newsday.com
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  • Swagman: an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work
  • Tittup: to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others; "He struts around like a rooster in a hen house"
  • Browbeat: discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate
  • Strut: a proud stiff pompous gait
  • Act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner
  • Swagger is the first full studio album by the Irish-American Celtic punk band Flogging Molly, mixed by Steve Albini. It was released in 2000.
  • Swagger is the third album from Scottish rock band Gun. It features a cover of "Word Up!", originally recorded by Cameo.
  • A bold, or arrogant strut; A prideful boasting or bragging; To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner; To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully