swagger
verb (used without object)
to walk or strut with a defiant or insolent air.
swaggeringly
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a word derived from
swagger.
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a word derived from
swaggering.
swaggeringadjectivepertaining to, characteristic of, or behaving in the manner of a person who swaggers.
Example Sentences
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This was an emotional dispatch from the domain of private fantasy, a swaggeringly exuberant collection of clothes that might make us, too, feel immortal.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2018
From the very start, Linklater’s astonishingly well-cast and well-meshed ensemble of actors appears both swingingly choreographed in daily motion and exhilaratingly, swaggeringly free.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 5, 2016
The organization passed on 6-foot-11 Jahlil Okafor — who is averaging 21 points and seven rebounds for Philadelphia — because it swaggeringly thought it could sign big man LaMarcus Aldridge or Greg Monroe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2015
"Assassins has to be the most swaggeringly badass show in town," wrote Metro's Patricia Nicol in her five-star review.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2014
Starting off swaggeringly, he had halted three times on his way to the station, and three times had taken at least two steps back toward the flat which he felt desolate behind him.
From The Trimming of Goosie by James Hopper
