bravado
noun
a pretentious, swaggering display of courage.
bravados
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pluralof bravado.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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 Charles Caldwell Dobie
Mimi began to laugh and to utter bravados.
From Bohemians of the Latin Quarter by Henry Murger
They made many bravados, daily shooting off forty, fifty, or sixty pieces of ordnance at Nero and Puloway, thinking to frighten us.
