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Meanings of mere bravado in English

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Usage of mere bravado in English
1
This, of course, was mere bravado on the part of the Commandant.
For the Term of His Natural Life
2
You deliberately venture your life, and ours as well, from mere bravado?
Prisoners of Chance / The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen,...
3
The thing was in any case mere bravado, and melodramatic enterprise.
The Dictator
4
This also, the mere bravado of an arrested criminal, was bandied from mouth to mouth.
The Vultures
5
Was he in earnest, or was it mere bravado?
The Man on the Box
6
All this was mere bravado; honestly, I shrunk within my clothes and shivered in my shoes.
Arms and the Woman
7
I had dismissed Trent's posttrial threats as mere bravado, a lashing-out reaction to losing the case.
Silks
8
And if not his duty, was he called to do it from mere bravado of goodness?
What's Mine's Mine — Volume 2
9
He could not understand the attitude, for Tarboe would scarcely have risked the thing out of mere bravado.
A Romany of the Snows, Complete / Being a Continuation of the Pe...
10
The man's endurance seemed mere bravado.
The Sheik: A Novel
11
It had not been mere bravado on the General's part but a deliberately planned act to steady his men.
On the Fringe of the Great Fight
12
Yet accidents like these only spurred the whalemen on to greater efforts, not of mere bravado, but of daring skill.
All Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
13
That is mere bravado.
Three Dramas
14
He's got a pretty good head on him, though, and I daresay a lot of this talk is mere bravado.
The Making of a Soul
15
The vindictive woman was ready to swear that it was out of mere bravado, and intended only as an insult to her.
The Honor of the Name
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He began to fancy that what seemed mirth and jollity was the mere bravado of misery and a ghastly mask of real enjoyment.
'Doc.' Gordon
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