swaggering
present participle ofswagger
swagger
verb[I]
uk/ˈswæɡ.ər/us/ˈswæɡ.ɚ/towalkorbehavein a way thatshowsthat you are veryconfidentandthinkthat you areimportant:
They swaggered into theroom.
Agroupofyoungmen swaggeredaroundoutsidethebar.
His swaggeringself-confidenceirritatesmanypeople.
to walk
- walkThe baby has just learned to walk.
- strideShe strode purposefully up to the desk and demanded to speak to the manager.
- marchHe marched right in to the office and demanded to see the governor.
- strollWe strolled along the beach.
- wanderShe wandered from room to room, not sure of what she was looking for.
- ambleShe ambled down the street, looking in shop windows.
Moving firmly on foot
- breeze
- clomp
- clump
- flounce
- goose step
- lope
- mark
- pace
- parade
- prance
- quick march!idiom
- sashay
- stamp
- stomp
- stride
- strut
- swagger
- swaggeringly
- unmounted
- waltz
Examplesofswaggering
swaggering
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Certainly, their jailbreaks, public displays of violence, and highly vocal protests fit a familiar image ofswaggeringand courageous rebels.
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All of this is said with staggering confidence,swaggeringarrogance and the certainty of ignorance.
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Such cynics saw honour as a matter of rank and preferment, to be gained by noisy shows of loyalty and the traditionalswaggeringbravado of the braggart soldier.
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It is therefore the assumption of the trickster persona that allows the narrator to become theswaggering, badman folk villain who is incapable of remaining within traditional societal structures.
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Such people can be seen every dayswaggeringup and down the streets of our inner cities.
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However, as he is 14, he wasswaggeringaround the estate once more within days.
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But if one belongs to a minority group one can use one's birth not inswaggeringdisplays of uniqueness, believing that one has some special superiority.
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Everybody else would do the same, and then you may get a captain away in a far-off sea, perhaps a little elated on occasions,swaggeringwith his armed merchantman.
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He inhabits it fully, strutting andswaggeringand even, spoofing himself.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He added that the album spends more time on the softer side in comparison to theswaggeringof most of his previous albums.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The book is crammed with bragging andswaggering, pseudoscientific bombast, platitudes and vulgarities, and a great deal of sheer nonsense.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.His name became a byword for aswaggeringfool.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The deafening,swaggeringroar of their music was made to be loud, fast, and as sweaty as possible.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Often the suspension is modified so the front end sits slightly higher than the rear end, giving the car aswaggeringappearance.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The band's image of themselves asswaggering, pioneering visionaries meant employing a backwards perspective instead of looking forward.
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