bravado

Speech parts

1. bravado - Noun

2. bravado - Verb

Meaning

Boastful and threatening behavior; a boastful menace.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

bluster bluff buncombe swash crake courage daring flourish defiance boast vanity raging bullying boasting boldness
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Antonyms

bridle exception fear difficulty discipline fence
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Hypernyms

flash fanfare ostentation

Phrases with the word

false bravado

Derivatives

bravadoes

Examples

A few weeks after the outbreak of the coronavirus in Wuhan, Chinese leader Xi Jinping vowed, with typical communist party bravado, to win the “people’s war” against the novel threat. Source: Internet

As we came to a halt before him he tossed his cigarette away and slumped forward, all his bravado gone. Source: Internet

Goree has all of Clay’s bravado, but never renders it into caricature. Source: Internet

As governments have boomeranged between false bravado and tragic indecisiveness, communities have leapt forward. Source: Internet

His bravado might as well give extra motivation to the Niners defence. Source: Internet

But there was also the relief of seeing Trump's facade of bravado collapsing, exposing the loser that was always hiding behind that wall of bluster. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Brautigam brava bravade bravadoes Bravais lattice Bravanese