15 adjectives to describe swaggering

" There was an air of modest swagger about Miles as he spoke, for he rather prided himself on his business acumen and general smartness, so Katherine's next words were a terrible blow to his pride.

He straightened up with a little swagger.

The man is thick, strong, common; his jaws are heavy; his eyes are expressionless; there is about him the loud swagger of the caserne; and he suggests the inevitable question, Why did she marry him?a question that every young man of refined mind asks a thousand times by day and ten thousand times by night, asks till he is five-and-thirty, and sees that his generation has passed into middle age.

In truth, he swaggered a bit, but it was a gay and gallant swagger, and it became him.

And a few minutes afterwards a small, slender boy of fourteen, with only Eton's own inimitable self-confidence and delicious swagger printed upon his every line, drove up to the door, and, paying for the taxi in a lordly way, came into his mother's morning-room.

Starling's walk had commonly been a loose-jointed swagger, his head up in challenge, as befitted a hero of manifold adventure with wild horses.

" "I have always thought that 'dare' was a quaint word," says Manuel, with the lordly swagger which he kept for company.

"I don't think Mr. Ferrars ever put on much side," protested Katherine, taking up the cudgels in defence of the absent one, although there was an increased heaviness in her heart as she reflected that perhaps, after all, he was betrothed to Mary Selincourt, and hence the inward elation resulting in the outward swagger.

It was a sad application of the high-sounding doctrines of the Message,a dreadful descent for a pure hard-money government,and a lamentable conversion of the pompous swagger of October into the shivering collapse of January!

"The paper what your father found in your box. Didn't he tell you?" He kicked over a chair which stood in his way and, with a reckless swagger, strode to the door.

She expected him to approach her with the royal swagger of victory, and involuntarily she shrank, dreading to encounter him in that mood, painfully aware of her own weakness.

Sometimes on the course when he watched her wild swings a trick of memory brought her back to him as the bony little girl in his own clothesshe was still bony, though longerwith her chopped-off hair and boyish swagger.

A man tramping in search of work is a "swagman" or "swagger," from the "swag" or roll of blankets he carries on his back.

The goods thus taken out he concealed about his person, and went off with a careless swagger to the outskirts of the village, with Crusoe at his heels.

She practiced back and forth in her room that exaggerated swagger, jerked her sombrero rakishly over one eye, cocked up her cartridge belt at one side, and swung down the stairs.

15 adjectives to describe  swaggering