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Meanings of reckless bravado in English

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Usage of reckless bravado in English
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Truculence and reckless bravado proclaimed themselves in the pose, as he bulked there.
A Pagan of the Hills
2
The slenderer of the two showed a kind of reckless bravado by jumping up and down.
The confusion
3
Now I was still in the mood of reckless bravado which I had got from bagging the car.
Greenmantle
4
Such a paradox they could not understand, and therefore sank into listless indifference, or shiftlessness, or reckless bravado.
The Souls of Black Folk
5
And Roscoe, who accepted their predicament with a kind of reckless bravado, sneered slightly at Tom's evident apprehension.
Tom Slade, Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer
6
Instead, with reckless bravado considering her late state of mind, she went to the lamp and turned it up.
The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest
7
There was a reckless bravado in his manner that alarmed his mother, and it was not long before the purpose of his visit came out.
When London Burned : a Story of Restoration Times and the Great ...
8
Friends of the youth have since been heard to say that there is such a thing as carrying the spirit of reckless bravado too far.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 31, 1917
9
Bill, with a reckless bravado, as much of rum as of his own nature, again laid all his winnings on one card-this time the queen.
Wild Bill's Last Trail
10
"But it is reckless bravado; it is worse than foolishness," said Beverley, not feeling her mood.
Alice of Old Vincennes
11
"The desire to see you and a spirit of reckless bravado has kept me here much longer than prudence would dictate."
The Touchstone of Fortune / Being the Memoir of Baron Clyde, Who...
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