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bravado
[ bruh-vah-doh ]
noun
- a pretentious, swaggering display of courage.
Synonyms: braggadocio, bombast, bluster, brag
bravado
/ brəˈvɑːdəʊ /
noun
- vaunted display of courage or self-confidence; swagger
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- over·bra·vado noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bravado1
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Example Sentences
Even the legendary 1980s televisions show Dallas is back on the air, selling its twenty-first century brand of Texas bravado.
And we can listen to the pathetic, creepy bravado of a former vice president, wrong on nearly every decision he made.
Picasso, with his polka-dot shirt and clashing tie attempted an air of bravado, but lost confidence by the minute.
He sees the GOP moving back to its roots as the party advocating for more weapons and more bravado in American foreign policy.
Zaharchenko on Friday night projected defiance rather than bravado, no doubt buoyed by the Moscow-sent materiel and fighters.
Go hoodles, travel without even the protection of a hood; by way of bravado.
The answer was given slowly, without any bravado, but whatever energy of life there was in the speaker had gone into it.
He was surrounded with bravado and devilry, with all the disbanded sins of the Flanders regiments.
The poor little girl had lost her bravado of the night before.
Her manner at first is a mixture of alternate shyness and bravado.
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