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Meanings of braggadocio in English
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Examples for "bluster"
Examples for "bluster"
1
Despite his bluster, I noticed that he was keeping clear of Steakhouse.
2
The event was not a clear win for Washington, despite Trump's bluster.
3
Few people will take Nick Clegg's latest bluster on tax fairness seriously.
4
At the time it was easy to dismiss Ellison's statements as bluster.
5
So underneath the bluster, Batou was afraid his new look was disturbing.
1
His plans were castles in the air: his talk was rhodomontade.
2
The old hero, with his lewdness and rhodomontade, is excused from the stage.
3
Most of my fellow-countrywomen must need read your French books-uselessrhodomontade-
4
What the deuce are you about, Chapeau, with all this rhodomontade?
5
But it demanded that the passion should be winnowed, and free from all rhodomontade.
1
The logic of events was at length subduing the rodomontade of soap-box oratory.
2
This rodomontade, as Horace Walpole terms it, reached the ears of George II.
3
His old passion for a theatrical piece of rodomontade was not yet subdued.
4
They did so; and a day it was, of boast, and swagger, and rodomontade.
5
He spoke with warmth and feeling, but with an entire absence of boastfulness or rodomontade.
Usage of braggadocio in English
1
Even then, the fear was covered up by plenty of intellectual braggadocio.
2
How dare you be a cowardly, bullying, braggadocio of an unmanly landlord?
3
At the time, however, CIA analysts dismissed the boasts as typical Cuban braggadocio.
4
It is in no spirit of braggadocio, but simply to give the facts.
5
They beat the braggadocio and the self-confidence temporarily out of him.
6
She began to talk of priests in a tone of contempt and braggadocio.
7
It is definitely not the time for division, braggadocio, and conspiracy theory-oriented leadership.
8
Why do we label her perfectly justifiable behaviour as sinister braggadocio?
9
This assurance lent an added braggadocio to the Dutch courage of the lynchers.
10
With much swagger and braggadocio, Wilkinson advanced to the center of the stage.
11
But there is no froideur about her, nor indeed any braggadocio.
12
Or is it to do with friendship and community, or showboating and braggadocio?
13
Thorough Stress is used in expressing command, denunciation, bravado, braggadocio, etc.
14
Bernadotte, though a brave and efficient officer, was a jealous braggadocio.
15
And, notwithstanding all this braggadocio, performance seems to have lagged sadly behind profession.
16
The man would then instantly, with a very comical expression, cease his braggadocio.
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