Swagger

(verb.) act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner.

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• They were scheming to outdo one another, to rob weaker contemporaries, to destroy rivals, so that they might for a brief interval swagger. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The soldiers who like to wear uniforms, who like to strut and swagger and wear red-and-black scarves. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• He sat himself down with a threatening swagger, and said: 'Give me a bottle of wine. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• While the twain are faithful to their post, Mr. George strides through the streets with a massive kind of swagger and a grave-enough face. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Very kind of him, the stiff-backed prig, with his dandified airs and West End swagger. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• A little later a rakish young workman, with a goatee beard and a swagger, lit his clay pipe at the lamp before descending into the street. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• He swaggered up a path as if as if the place belonged to him, and we heard his loud, confident peal at the bell. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• They swaggered up and down the almost deserted pier, and hurled curses, obscenity, and stinging sarcasms at our crew. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Important elements in German life struggled against this swaggering new autocracy. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Armitage and Ramsden smoking, Malone swaggering, your uncle sneering, Mr. Sykes sipping a cordial, and Moore himself in his cold man-of-business vein! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He was, altogether, as roystering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four feet six, or something less, in the bluchers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Who would not cut the very best swaggering Stanhope for a Molyneux? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Well, it belongs to a stepson of mine, said Raffles, adjusting himself in a swaggering attitude. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• George had an air at once swaggering and melancholy, languid and fierce. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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