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swaggering
adjective as in arrogant
Weak matches
- assuming
- audacious
- autocratic
- biggety
- bragging
- cheeky
- cold-shoulder
- conceited
- contemptuous
- cool
- disdainful
- domineering
- egotistic
- high-and-mighty
- high-handed
- insolent
- know-it-all
- lordly
- on an ego trip
- overbearing
- peremptory
- proud
- puffed up
- scornful
- self-important
- smarty
- smarty-pants
- sniffy
- snippy
- snooty
- snotty
- stuck up
- supercilious
- superior
- uppity
adjective as in boastful
adjective as in bullying
adjective as in cocky
adjective as in jaunty
Weak matches
- airy
- animated
- bold
- brash
- careless
- cocky
- dapper
- dashing
- debonair
- devil-may-care
- easy
- exhilarated
- flip
- flippant
- forward
- free
- fresh
- frisky
- frolicsome
- gamesome
- gay
- high-spirited
- hilarious
- impetuous
- impudent
- jocose
- joking
- light
- natty
- nervy
- prankish
- provocative
- reckless
- self-confident
- showy
- smart
- sportive
- sporty
- spruce
- trim
- venturesome
- vivacious
adjective as in prideful
Weak matches
- aloof
- assuming
- audacious
- autocratic
- biggety
- boastful
- bossy
- bragging
- cavalier
- cheeky
- cocky
- cold-shoulder
- conceited
- contemptuous
- cool
- disdainful
- dismissive
- domineering
- egotistic
- egotistical
- haughty
- high-and-mighty
- high-handed
- imperious
- insolent
- know-it-all
- lofty
- lordly
- narcissistic
- on an ego trip
- on one's high horse
- overbearing
- overweening
- peremptory
- pompous
- presumptuous
- pretentious
- puffed up
- scornful
- self-important
- self-satisfied
- smug
- sniffy
- snippy
- snobbish
- snooty
- snotty
- stuck-up
- supercilious
- superior
- uppity
- vain
- vainglorious
adjective as in triumphant
adjective as in vain
Example Sentences
If only the swaggering Trojans weren’t also so sloppy.
It was Old Timothy, swaggering in the door like a captain on the deck of his own ship.
Already the children were swaggering about like sailors; Alexander had put up a hand to cover one eye.
For now, he's the swaggering victor -- but that gap could haunt him if health care dominates 2026.
Fifty years after Smith released her swaggering, era-defining album, Horses, she is back on the road and also publishing a new memoir, titled Bread of Angels.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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