bravado

In his Monday video, Newsom urged Trump with mano a mano bravado to come after him as much as he wanted, but to leave his wife and family out of it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

“We anticipate more of these bouts of bravado to dictate the region for a while as both sides claim they are winning and neither is willing to be seen as disadvantaged,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026

It’s all just bravado and illusion in a show where the magician has no bunnies left to pull from his top hat.

From Salon ● May 28, 2026

While many Indian rappers showcase big personalities and emphatic bravado, Reble's style feels tighter and more restrained - less explosive anger and more something quieter and personal.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

She can sense all the other stuff you find at any high school, too—the bravado and insecurity and self-consciousness and pretending.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

He smiled at the Hohenzollern's theatrical tastes, his war-like bravadoes, and his intellectual ambitions which pretended to embrace the whole knowable universe.

From The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) by Blasco Ib??ez, Vicente

And without being blown into splinters by artillery, how many of these Redoubtables and Invincibles have succumbed to the waves, and like braggarts gone down before hurricanes, with their bravadoes broad on their bows.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Melville, Herman

These bravadoes caused great irritation, but still the Spanish warriors were restrained by the prohibition of the King.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

But let us still resist him; for notwithstanding all his bravadoes, he promoteth the fool, and none else.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by Bunyan, John

For three hours he questioned and insulted them, while a score of attendant press agents took down his magnificent bravadoes to be embellished for the press of the day.

From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Cunningham, Francis A. (Francis Aloysius)

Next to being raided by the sheriff of an adjacent county, having a river prophet come on board is the greatest excitement and the smartest amusement of the bravados down the river.

From The River Prophet by Coleman, Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen)

Mimi began to laugh and to utter bravados.

From Bohemians of the Latin Quarter by Murger, Henry

She makes sorties and attacks, she endeavours to hide her weakness by her bravados, and when she replies most disdainfully to a summons to capitulate, is perhaps on the eve of surrender.

From At Agincourt by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

He must use his poetic powers as wonders attesting the purpose for which he speaks—not as mere bravados of ostentatious power.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various

It would be interesting to stare defiantly at his enemy at close range, to speak with him again man to man, to lure him into further bravados.

From Broken to the Plow by Dobie, Charles Caldwell