Synonyms of swaggering

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adjective

as in cocky

Related Words

• cocky
• bombastic
• boastful
• blusterous
• blustery
• bumptious
• braggart
• arrogant
• bragging
• vainglorious
• conceited
• smug
• self-important
• domineering
• supercilious
• egotistic
• complacent
• pompous
• braggy
• haughty
• bigheaded
• cavalier
• uppity
• snooty
• high-and-mighty
• snobbish
• self-assertive
• egoistic
• chesty
• self-satisfied
• prideful
• uppish
• snobby
• assumptive
• overweening
• pontifical
• stuck-up
• disdainful
• self-conceited
• high-hat
• huffy
• vain
• high-handed
• holier-than-thou
• overconfident
• lordly
• proud
• assured
• peremptory
• self-assured
• consequential
• imperious
• biggety
• pretentious
• toplofty
• swellheaded
• self-asserting
• fastuous
• superior
• self-confident
• important
• masterful
• confident
• self-opinionated
• lofty
• presumptuous
• highfalutin
• selfish
• self-contented
• presuming
• self-congratulatory
• self-glorifying
• self-centered
• self-dramatizing
• self-promoting
• self-adulatory
• self-gratulatory
• self-engrossed
• self-applauding
• self-affected

Dissimilar Words

• humble
• modest
• diffident
• timid
• egoless
• meek
• self-critical
• unassertive
• uncomplacent
• unassuming
• self-doubting
• bashful
• down-to-earth
• sheepish
• unpretentious
• shrinking
• self-reproachful
• self-distrustful
• shy
• self-reproving
• demure
• introverted
• retiring
• mousy
• overmodest
• unarrogant

swaggering

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verb

present participle of swagger

1

as in boasting

to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excess

I, too, would swagger if I'd won first place in the bowling tournament

Synonyms & Similar Words

• boasting
• bragging
• vaunting
• displaying
• blowing
• exhibiting
• crowing
• vaporing
• blustering
• blowing smoke
• bulling
• puffing
• gasconading
• haranguing
• priding
• gushing
• exulting
• flaunting
• parading
• glorying
• exposing
• brandishing
• rejoicing
• maximizing
• showing off
• glorifying
• magnifying

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• minimizing
• diminishing
• discounting
• belittling
• deprecating
• underrating
• undervaluing
• shrugging off
• playing down
• mourning
• lamenting
• pooh-poohing
• laughing off
• regretting
• bemoaning

2

as in strutting

to walk with exaggerated arm and leg movements

hoping to impress the women at the bar, the young man confidently swaggered across the room

Synonyms & Similar Words

• strutting
• prancing
• striding
• stalking
• sashaying
• shuffling
• mincing
• stepping
• sweeping
• tiptoeing
• parading
• lurching
• traipsing
• treading
• staggering
• padding
• flouncing
• shambling
• pacing
• promenading
• pussyfooting
• lumbering
• pounding

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of swaggering

Adjective

In a time when peers such as the New York Dolls and Velvet Underground were upending rock and roll with glamour and arty disaffection, Television fulfilled the genre’s promises of both swaggering virtuosity and restless reinvention. — Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2026

In between the swaggering pronouncements, Jaggseer waxes poetic about dusty roads and Chevy trucks and reflects on humble beginnings and hard work. — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2026

That year, the group, whose official name is Ansar Allah, surged to prominence by capturing Sana’a, the country’s capital, a swaggering first step in their evolution from a scruffy militia to the rulers of large swaths of Yemeni territory. — Kareem Fahim, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026

The swaggering track, which sees the artists joining voices on the chorus, will get an official music video later today. — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2026

Unlike the swaggering Daemon, this wounded Aemond is vulnerable. — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

The boxing ring metaphor was largely abandoned once the competition began, even though there were more opportunities to mix baseball’s tradition of walkup music with fight sports’ swaggering walkouts. — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 14 July 2026

Soprano Anna Thompson sings the role of the faithful Micaëla, and Mexican baritone Raúl Morales Velazco is the swaggering toreador Escamillo. — Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 9 July 2026

The group went on to earn national and international acclaim before its swaggering leader, Country Dick Montana, died on stage midway through a 1995 show in Canada. — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2026

Verb

Naturally, that legal skirmishing cost money, so Bianco asked the county Board of Supervisors to pony up and pay the bills arising from all his sheriffy swaggering, ballot confiscating and Trump pandering. — Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2026

Here’s Steve Jobs, swaggering around to a different Drake song with a bottle of champagne in his hand (371,000 views). — Mia Sato, The Verge, 15 Oct. 2026

And in the event that someone wasn’t aware of what Children of Blood and Bone was, the panel did its job, promising an exuberant, swaggering epic with a charming cast to inhabit it. — Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2026

His strength in the late nineties was a kind of calm under pressure, and his power in the next decade was translating that swaggering cool for ever-larger stages. — Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026

Urushadze presents a sympathetic portrait of Niaz, a man who once embodied a certain type of swaggering masculinity but now seems adrift in the modern world. — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 21 Aug. 2026

After all those swaggering herbal notes faded, tasters said Roku finished with breezy floral qualities—lavender and rose. — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 12 May 2026

The advertisement opened with a backside shot of a man clothed in Levi’s jeans, a western shirt and leather gloves, swaggering up to a pair of saloon doors. — Jack Armstrong, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026

Don the swaggering employee needs to learn a lesson about gender identity. — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2026