Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A show of bravery or defiance, often in order to make a false impression or mislead someone.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Pretentious boldness or bravery; arrogant or boastful menace; swaggering defiance.
- noun One who indulges in boastful and arrogant menaces.
- Arrogantly bold or menacing; said or done in bravado: as, “bravado bets,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Boastful and threatening behavior; a boastful menace.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
swaggering show ofdefiance orcourage . - noun A
false show of courage.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a swaggering show of courage
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Like most things about fake dr hunt, the bravado is transparently false.
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Yeah ... bravado from a guy who never served under arms ... the great desk chair warrior has spoken!
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And they are given to the rulers and the ruling classes, not in bravado, not to frighten them, but for them to consider more deeply the spirit and nature of this world revolution.
Revolution 2010
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Like most things about fake dr hunt, the bravado is transparently false.
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Also, Graham realized that the turning of her head and the waving of her arm was only partly in bravado, was more in aesthetic wisdom of the picture she composed, and was, most of all, sheer joy of daring and emprise of the blood and the flesh and the life that was she.
CHAPTER IX 2010
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I respect John McCain for his service and patriotism, but not for his failure to look through a contemporary lens at the Iraq war rather than through a lens tainted by the posturing bravado from the scars of a VIetnam-era worldview.
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And Dutrow, known in horse racing for his bravado, is doing well enough as a trainer that he's planning to wager $100,000 on Big Brown, a 3-1 favorite.
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The difference here from the fool's paradise of hip-hop bravado is that it's all too real, and that the protagonists who confide in Asger Leth are now all dead.
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She chose the word bravado and those two things - the word bravado and the photograph of the men dancing - would inspire and then form her song.
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It uses elements of music, and it uses the word bravado, and it references the picture, and might not be anything people won't listen to, but at least, you know, I say it will be pleasant.
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