bravado

Throughout the trial, Davis' defence team tried to persuade jurors that his comments were fiction - bravado and exaggeration intended to sell books and make money.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

In 2019, after a series of interviews, Davis published his own book, which, full of bravado, gave a similar account of Shakur’s killing as that of the federal task force.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

Telling a federal judge the same kind of thing carries the threat of disbarment and perjury charges, and no amount of bravado previously reserved for on-air broadcasts could change that math.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

In a Wall Street Journal interview that November, founder Ren Zhengfei invited President Trump to come visit and brushed off U.S. sanctions with characteristic bravado.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

“That wicked boy. I hate him! But he is no match for me,” I said with a feigned bravado.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

But their general had made up his mind, and was not to be moved by the bravadoes of the enemy or by the murmurs of his own soldiers.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

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

From Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada by Washington Irving

And so saying, under sufferance of being small, the plenipo was permitted to depart unmolested; for all his bravadoes, fobbing his credentials and affronts.

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

This is not, as might be supposed, one of those bravadoes of the timid, who shout before Death in order to deaden the sound of his footsteps.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 by Hamilton Wright Mabie

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

From The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

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 Charles Caldwell Dobie

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 Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen) Coleman

Mimi began to laugh and to utter bravados.

From Bohemians of the Latin Quarter by Henry Murger

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

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 G. A. (George Alfred) Henty