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walk or behave in a highly confident or proud manner — often arrogant and sometimes to impress or intimidate others

swaggered = walked and behaved in a highly confident manner

swaggered = walked in a highly confident manner

I quickly started to pick up on their lingo and style, the swagger of my new teammates and neighborhood friends.
Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore

swagger = highly confident walk and behavior

He takes clear delight in swaggering up and down the rows of men.
Heather Morris -- The Tattooist of Auschwitz

swaggering = walking in a highly confident manner

He was imitating her swaggering way of speaking, as if she cared about nothing.
Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game

swaggering = highly confident

swagger = walk in a highly confident manner

We were a proud pair, dropping by the pool hall, playing a quick game of eight ball, and then, as the sky darkened, swaggering down the sidewalk.
Homer Hickam -- October Sky

swaggering = walking in a highly confident manner

For Bernard left the room with a swagger, exulting, as he banged the door behind him, in the thought that he stood alone, embattled against the order of things; elated by the intoxicating consciousness of his individual significance and importance.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

swagger = highly confident walk and behavior

They would swagger and pick on outsiders and persecute anyone who didn't speak as they did.
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston -- Farewell to Manzanar

swagger = walk and behave in a highly confident manner

I grumble and swat and swagger. I beat my chest till the whole world hears.
Katherine Applegate -- The One and Only Ivan

swagger = behave in a highly confident manner

McNab the father swaggers bare-armed out the front door, bellowing back, "Do yer homework!"
Jerry Spinelli -- Maniac Magee

swaggers = walks in a highly confident manner

He did not go skipping and prancing, but moved with a dignified swagger as became a pirate who felt that the public eye was on him.
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

swagger = confidence or pride

He cautioned her about the catches on the windows and doors and swaggered off to Winter Park.
Zora Neale Hurston -- Their Eyes Were Watching God

swaggered = walked in a highly confident manner

She talked with a swagger, seeming to be proud of this fact.
Amy Tan -- The Joy Luck Club

swagger = highly confident manner

In fact, his conduct approached that of a bully, and he was given to swaggering up and down before Spitz's very nose.
Jack London -- The Call of the Wild

swaggering = walking in a highly confident manner

He reflected that this coalition of four young, brave, enterprising, and active men ought to have some other object than swaggering walks, fencing lessons, and practical jokes, more or less witty.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers

swaggering = displaying pride and confidence

The impermanence of a collapsible church added to the frivolity, and their eyes flashed and winked and the girls giggled little silver drops in the dusk while the boys postured and swaggered and pretended not to notice.
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

swaggered = walked or behaved in a highly confident manner

swaggered = walked in a highly confident manner

And Maniac knew that despite the swagger and the scowl and the chocolate stogie, Mars Bar Thompson was one uneasy dude.
Jerry Spinelli -- Maniac Magee

swagger = highly confident walk and behavior

Russell and Piper, kiddie Cobras, pop their own beer cans, guzzle, swagger, belch, smoke, curse.
Jerry Spinelli -- Maniac Magee

swagger = walk or behave in a highly confident manner

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