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Adjective swaggering has 2 senses
- disdainful, haughty, lordly, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering - 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"; "shaggy supercilious camels"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer
Antonym: humble (indirect, via proud)
- swaggering, swashbuckling - flamboyantly adventurous
Antonym: unadventurous (indirect, via adventurous)
Verb swagger has 3 senses
- swagger, ruffle, prance, strut, sashay, cock - to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others; "He struts around like a rooster in a hen house"
--1 is one way to walk
Sample sentence:
The children swagger to the playground
- browbeat, bully, swagger - discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate
--2 is one way to wheedle, cajole, palaver, blarney, coax, sweet-talk, inveigle
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
- swagger, bluster, swash - act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner
--3 is one way to act, behave, do
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
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